Brief review: Anesthetic neurotoxicity in the elderly, cognitive dysfunction and Alzheimer's disease

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 216-223

  Bittner, Edward A ^a   Yue, Yun ^b   Xie, Zhongcong ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; ANESTHETIC AGENT; CASPASE 3; CHLORAL HYDRATE; DESFLURANE; DROPERIDOL; FENTANYL; HALOTHANE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; NITROUS OXIDE; SEVOFLURANE; TAU PROTEIN;

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SHORT SURVEY; SPATIAL MEMORY; SURGICAL PATIENT;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANESTHETICS, GENERAL; ANIMALS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79951725112     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12630-010-9418-x     Document Type: Short Survey

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