Effects of small concentrations of volatile anesthetics on action potential firing of neocortical neurons in vitro

Anesthesiology

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1592-1605

  Antkowiak, Bernd ^a   Helfrich Förster, Charlotte ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

aminobutyric acid; Brain; Enflurane; Glutamate; Halothane; Isoflurane; Neocortex; Rat; Receptors

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BICUCULLINE; ENFLURANE; HALOTHANE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; MAGNESIUM ION;

ANESTHESIA MECHANISM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; TEMPERATURE;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENFLURANE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GABA ANTAGONISTS; HALOTHANE; ISOFLURANE; MAGNESIUM; NEOCORTEX; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0344222171     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199806000-00024     Document Type: Article

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