Anesthesia and the developing brain: Are we getting closer to understanding the truth?

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 395-399

  Jevtovic Todorovic, Vesna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; cognitive development; glia; immature brain; neurotoxicity; synaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE;

APOPTOSIS; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL GROWTH; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CYTOSKELETON; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; CYTOSKELETON; NEUROGLIA; SYNAPSES;

EID: 79960697966     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: 14736500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e3283487247     Document Type: Review

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