Timing versus duration: Determinants of anesthesia-induced developmental apoptosis in the young mammalian brain

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1199, Issue , 2010, Pages 43-51

  Rizzi, Sabina ^a,b   Ori, Carlo ^b   Jevtovic Todorovic, Vesna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fentanyl; Isoflurane; Midazolam; Nitrous oxide; Piglets; Ssynaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

ISOFLURANE; MIDAZOLAM; NITROUS OXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN REGION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PIGLET; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

CAVIA; MAMMALIA; MUS; PRIMATES; RATTUS;

EID: 77953970357     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.05173.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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