Molecular Targets of General Anesthetics in the Nervous System

Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 11-31

  Hemmings, Hugh C ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

general anesthetics; inhaled anesthetics; intravenous anesthetics; ion channels; Mechanisms of anesthesia; pharmacology; synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

EID: 85073537182     PISSN: 2627535X     EISSN: 26275341     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-462-3_2     Document Type: Chapter

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