Non-immobilizers put to the test: F6 and the GABAA receptor

International Congress Series

Volumn 1283, Issue , 2005, Pages 73-78

  Perouansky, Misha ^a   Pearce, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Expressed receptors; Extrasynaptic receptors; Inhibition; Isoflurane; Mechanism of anesthesia; Memory; Pro convulsant; Seizure; Volatile anesthetic; Whole cell recording

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646464118     PISSN: 05315131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ics.2005.06.040     Document Type: Article

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