Teratogenicity of nitrous oxide

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 363-375

  Fujinaga, Masahiko ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Left right axis; Methionine synthase; Nitrous oxide; Pregnancy; Situs inversus; Sympathomimetic effect; Teratogenicity; Waste anaesthetic gases; I adrenoceptor

Indexed keywords

1 [N,O BIS(5 ISOQUINOLINESULFONYL) N METHYLTYROSYL] 4 PHENYLPIPERAZINE; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; HALOTHANE; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; METHIONINE SYNTHASE; NITROUS OXIDE; OPIATE; PHENYLEPHRINE; PRAZOSIN;

DNA SYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO RESORPTION; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; ENZYME INHIBITION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FETUS DEATH; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; INTRINSIC SYMPATHOMIMETIC ACTIVITY; MATERNAL BLOOD; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SITUS INVERSUS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TERATOGENICITY; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW; WORKPLACE;

EID: 0035181905     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/bean.2001.0180     Document Type: Article

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