Kinetics of etomidate actions on GABAA receptors in the rat spinal dorsal horn neurons

Brain Research

Volumn 953, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 93-100

  Zhang, Zhen Xiong ^a   Lü, Hui ^a   Dong, Xian Ping ^a   Liu, Jin ^b   Xu, Tian Le ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b FUWAI HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Dorsal horn; Etomidate; GABAA receptor; General anesthesia; Mechanically dissociated neuron; Miniature inhibitory postsynaptic current; Spinal cord; Whole cell voltage clamp recording

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ETOMIDATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESENSITIZATION; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL;

ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; ANIMALS; ETOMIDATE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; KINETICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURAL INHIBITION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0037145742     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(02)03274-2     Document Type: Article

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