Review article: General anesthesia: A gateway to modulate synapse formation and neural plasticity?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1174-1182

  Vutskits, Laszlo ^a,b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CALCIUM ION; ELONGATION FACTOR 2; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; HALOTHANE; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MIDAZOLAM; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; NITROUS OXIDE; PLACEBO; POTASSIUM ION; PROPOFOL; ANESTHETIC AGENT;

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN GROWTH; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DENDRITIC SPINE; DEPOLARIZATION; DEPRESSION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE MUTATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GROWTH ACCELERATION; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETT SYNDROME; REVIEW; RODENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SYNAPTOGENESIS; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, GENERAL; ANIMALS; HUMANS; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84868206378     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31826a1178     Document Type: Review

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