Effects of pregnancy on the solubility of halogenated volatile anaesthetics in rat blood and tissues

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 830-834

  Rao, Y ^a   Wang, Yan Lin ^a   Li, H ^a,b   Zhang, W ^a,b   Liu, J ^a,b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blood gas partition coefficient; Halogenated volatile anaesthetics; Pregnancy; Tissue gas partition coefficient

Indexed keywords

HALOGEN; HALOTHANE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; SEVOFLURANE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; KIDNEY HOMOGENATE; LIVER HOMOGENATE; NONHUMAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PREGNANCY; RAT;

EID: 56649121819     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x0803600612     Document Type: Article

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