Spatial memory using active allothetic place avoidance in adult rats after isoflurane anesthesia: A potential model for postoperative cognitive dysfunction

Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 138-145

  Carr, Zyad J ^a   Torjman, Marc C ^a   Manu, Kwasi ^a   Dy, George ^a   Goldberg, Michael E ^a  

^a Department of Anesthesiology   (United States)

Author keywords

active allothetic place avoidance; isoflurane; Postoperative cognitive dysfunction; spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ISOFLURANE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEMODYNAMICS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEMODYNAMICS; ISOFLURANE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPACE PERCEPTION; TELEMETRY;

EID: 79952992731     PISSN: 08984921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ANA.0b013e3182049f19     Document Type: Article

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