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Early Exposure to Common Anesthetic Agents Causes Widespread Neurodegeneration in the Developing Rat Brain and Persistent Learning Deficits

  • Vesna Jevtovic-Todorovic
  • , Richard E. Hartman
  • , Yukitoshi Izumi
  • , Nicholas D. Benshoff
  • , Krikor Dikranian
  • , Charles F. Zorumski
  • , John W. Olney
  • , David F. Wozniak

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Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)876-882
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Neuroscience
Volume23
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 1 2003
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Neuroscience

Keywords

  • Apoptosis
  • GABA agonists
  • Isoflurane
  • Midazolam
  • NMDA antagonists
  • Nitrous oxide
  • GABA Agonists/toxicity
  • Male
  • Nitrous Oxide/toxicity
  • Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate/antagonists & inhibitors
  • Brain/drug effects
  • Anesthetics/toxicity
  • Behavior, Animal/drug effects
  • Memory Disorders/chemically induced
  • Hippocampus/drug effects
  • Isoflurane/toxicity
  • Female
  • Animals, Newborn
  • Learning Disabilities/chemically induced
  • Apoptosis/drug effects
  • Neurodegenerative Diseases/chemically induced
  • Rats
  • Long-Term Potentiation/drug effects
  • Rats, Sprague-Dawley
  • Midazolam/toxicity
  • Animals
  • Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists/toxicity
  • Synaptic Transmission/drug effects
  • Maze Learning/drug effects
  • In Vitro Techniques
  • Chronic Disease
  • Drug Combinations

Disciplines

  • Pharmacology
  • Anesthesiology
  • Medicine and Health Sciences
  • Neuroscience and Neurobiology
  • Psychology

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