Etomidate depresses lumbar dorsal horn neuronal responses to noxious thermal stimulation in rats

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1169-1173

  Mitsuyo, Toshihiko ^c   Antognini, Joseph F ^a,b   Carstens, Earl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETOMIDATE; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; PROPOFOL;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; THERMAL STIMULATION;

EID: 33645508988     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000204764.13637.d4     Document Type: Article

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