Ammonia has anesthetic properties

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1430-1433

  Brosnan, Robert J ^a   Yang, Liya ^b   Milutinovic, Pavle S ^c   Zhao, Jing ^d   Laster, Michael J ^b   Eger, Edmond I ^b   Sonner, James M ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; ISOFLURANE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2A; OLIVE OIL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; FEMALE; IMMOBILIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; VOLTAGE CLAMP; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMMONIA; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; ION CHANNEL GATING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 34249010168     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000264072.97705.0f     Document Type: Article

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