Neurotoxicity of general anesthetics: Cause for concern?

Anesthesiology

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1365-1371

  Perouansky, Misha ^a   Hemmings, Hugh C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; ANESTHETIC AGENT; HALOTHANE; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; NITROUS OXIDE; PROPOFOL; THIOPENTAL;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LEARNING DISORDER; MONOTHERAPY; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGING; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; TOXICITY AND INTOXICATION;

AGING; ANESTHETICS, GENERAL; ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES;

EID: 73449124817     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181bf1d61     Document Type: Article

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