General anesthetics and the developing brain: Friends or foes?

Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 204-206

  Jevtovic Todorovic, Vesna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ANESTHETIC AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; DEATH RECEPTOR; DESFLURANE; ETOMIDATE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; HALOTHANE; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NITROUS OXIDE; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE; XENON;

APOPTOSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL SURVIVAL; EXCITOTOXICITY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, GENERAL; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEURONS;

EID: 25844529187     PISSN: 08984921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ana.0000178111.26972.16     Document Type: Short Survey

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