The anesthetic potencies of alkanethiols for rats: Relevance to theories of narcosis

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1294-1299

  Zhang, Yi ^a   Trudell, James R ^b   Mascia, Maria Paola ^c   Laster, Michael J ^d   Gong, Diane H ^a   Harris, R Adron ^c   Eger II, Edmond I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d University of California ^*

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALKANE DERIVATIVE; ALKANOL; HEXANE; PENTANOL; PROPANE; PROPANOL; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SOLUBILITY; LIPOPHILICITY; MALE; MINIMUM LUNG ALVEOLUS CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THEORY;

EID: 0033757113     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/00000539-200011000-00045     Document Type: Article

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