Low concentrations of pentobarbital enhance excitability of rat hippocampal neurons

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 993-997

  Archer, David P ^a,b   Roth, Sheldon H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENTOBARBITAL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MALE; NEURONS; PENTOBARBITAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 34748913002     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000282023.42639.b2     Document Type: Article

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