Etomidate reduces initiation of backpropagating dendritic action potentials: Implications for sensory processing and synaptic plasticity during anesthesia

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 2373-2384

  Van Den Burg, Erwin H ^a   Engelmann, Jacob ^a   Bacelo, João ^a   Gómez, Leonel ^a   Grant, Kirsty ^a  

^a Unite de Neurosciences Integratives et Computationnelles   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BICUCULLINE; ETOMIDATE; PICROTOXIN;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; ELECTRIC FISH; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; DENDRITES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTRIC ORGAN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ETOMIDATE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GABA ANTAGONISTS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT;

EID: 33947096853     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00395.2006     Document Type: Article

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