How do general anaesthetics work?

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 201-213

  Antkowiak, Bernd ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL;

AMNESIA; ANALGESIA; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; REVIEW; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, GENERAL; ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MAMMALS; NEURONS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034948569     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001140100230     Document Type: Review

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