Argon in the fast lane: Noble gases and their neuroprotective effects

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1965-1966

  Coburn, Mark ^a   Rossaint, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

argon; helium; hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy; neuroprotection; noble gases; xenon

Indexed keywords

ARGON; HELIUM; NITROGEN; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL; XENON;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ASPHYXIA; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; EDITORIAL; HYPOXIA; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; MAZE TEST; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROTAROD TEST;

ANIMALS; ARGON; ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; FEMALE; HELIUM; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; XENON;

EID: 84861522844     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182474cf5     Document Type: Editorial

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