Are volatile anesthetics neuroprotective or neurotoxic?

Medical Gas Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Zuo, Zhiyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia mechanism; Neuroprotection; Neurotoxicity; Postconditioning; Preconditioning; Volatile anesthetics

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CYCLOPROPANE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HALOTHANE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; MUSCIMOL; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NITROUS OXIDE; OLIVE OIL;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN REGION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CELL ACTIVITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DRUG BINDING; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; DRUG SOLUBILITY; DRUG STRUCTURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; ISCHEMIC POSTCONDITIONING; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; LIPID SOLUBILITY; METABOLIC RATE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; REM SLEEP; REVIEW;

EID: 84925880857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20459912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2045-9912-2-10     Document Type: Review

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