The Role of Dendritic Signaling in the Anesthetic Suppression of Consciousness

Anesthesiology

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1415-1431

  Meyer, Kaspar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; HALOTHANE; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE;

COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DENDRITIC CELL; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REVIEW; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL; CONSCIOUSNESS; DENDRITE; DRUG EFFECTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS, GENERAL; ANIMALS; CONSCIOUSNESS; DENDRITES; HUMANS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84937512335     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000000673     Document Type: Review

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