Glycine receptors mediate part of the immobility produced by inhaled anesthetics

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 97-101

  Zhang, Yi ^a   Laster, Michael J ^a   Hara, Koji ^b   Harris, R Adron ^b   Eger II, Edmond I ^a   Stabernack, Caroline R ^a   Sonner, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; CYCLOPROPANE; GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; GLYCINE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HALOTHANE; ISOFLURANE; STRYCHNINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SOLUBILITY; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MINIMUM LUNG ALVEOLUS CONCENTRATION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CYCLOPROPANES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; GLYCINE AGENTS; HALOTHANE; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; ISOFLURANE; MALE; MOVEMENT; OOCYTES; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; STRYCHNINE; XENOPUS;

EID: 0037219291     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-200301000-00021     Document Type: Article

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