Galloping in full pursuit of the mechanism of anesthetic immobility

Anesthesiology

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 975-976

  Hemmings Jr , Hugh C ^a   Flood, Pamela ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HALOTHANE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE;

ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ANESTHESIA MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; LOCOMOTION; MESENCEPHALON; MINIMUM LUNG ALVEOLUS CONCENTRATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; METHODOLOGY; MOTONEURON; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; STIMULATION;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANIMALS; IMMOBILIZATION; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 45149105243     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181753ad2     Document Type: Editorial

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