Differential effects of ageing on the EEG during pentobarbital and ketamine anaesthesia

European Journal of Anaesthesiology

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 826-833

  Fu, Y ^a,b   Guo, L ^c   Zhang, J ^a   Chen, Y ^a   Wang, X ^a   Zeng, T ^a   Tian, S ^a   Ma, Y ^a,d,e  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e Kunming Biomed International   (China)

Author keywords

Aged; Anaesthesia general; Electroencephalogram; Ketamine; Pentobarbital; Rat

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; PENTOBARBITAL;

AGING; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GROUPS BY AGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT;

ADJUVANTS, ANESTHESIA; AGING; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; ANIMALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; KETAMINE; MALE; PENTOBARBITAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 51349083657     PISSN: 02650215     EISSN: 13652346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0265021508004687     Document Type: Article

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