Lesion of cholinergic neurons in nucleus basalis enhances response to general anesthetics

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 228, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 259-269

  Leung, L Stan ^a   Petropoulos, Sophie ^a   Shen, Bixia ^a   Luo, Tao ^a   Herrick, Ian ^a   Rajakumar, N ^a   Ma, Jingyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Basal forebrain; Delirium; Halothane; Loss of righting reflex; Pentobarbital; Propofol

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HALOTHANE; PENTOBARBITAL; PROPOFOL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESPONSE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS BASALIS MAGNOCELLULARIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFLEX; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; VISUAL CORTEX; WAKEFULNESS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANESTHETICS, GENERAL; ANIMALS; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; DRUG RESISTANCE; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 79952700083     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2011.01.019     Document Type: Article

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