Anesthetic Effects on Glutamatergic Neurotransmission: Lessons Learned from a Large Synapse

Anesthesiology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 470-472

  Perouansky, Misha ^a   Hemmings, Hugh C ^b   Pearce, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; GLUTAMIC ACID; ISOFLURANE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANESTHESIA; BRAIN STEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANESTHETICS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AXONS; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 1442357383     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200403000-00003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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