Volatile aromatic anesthetics variably impact human γ-aminobutyric acid type a receptor function

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1287-1292

  Kelly, Elizabeth W ^a,b   Solt, Ken ^a,b   Raines, Douglas E ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,2 DIFLUOROBENZENE; 1,2,4 TRIFLUOROBENZENE; 1,3,5 TRIFLUOROBENZENE; 1,4 DIFLUOROBENZENE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BENZENE; CYCLOPROPANE; FLUOROBENZENE; HALOTHANE; HEXAFLUOROBENZENE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PENTAFLUROBENZENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MINIMUM LUNG ALVEOLUS CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; XENOPUS;

EID: 37349004428     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000282829.21797.97     Document Type: Article

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