Nitrous oxide (laughing gas) facilitates excitability in rat hippocampal slices through gamma-aminobutyric acid A receptor-mediated disinhibition

Anesthesiology. 2005 Jan;102(1):230-4. doi: 10.1097/00000542-200501000-00034.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Anesthetics, Inhalation / pharmacology*
  • Animals
  • Electric Stimulation
  • Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists / pharmacology
  • Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials / drug effects*
  • Extracellular Space / physiology
  • GABA Antagonists / pharmacology
  • GABA-A Receptor Agonists
  • GABA-A Receptor Antagonists
  • Hippocampus / drug effects*
  • In Vitro Techniques
  • Ketamine / pharmacology
  • Male
  • Nitrous Oxide / pharmacology*
  • Picrotoxin / pharmacology
  • Pyramidal Cells / drug effects
  • Rats
  • Rats, Sprague-Dawley
  • Receptors, GABA-A / drug effects*
  • Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate / drug effects
  • Synaptic Transmission / drug effects

Substances

  • Anesthetics, Inhalation
  • Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists
  • GABA Antagonists
  • GABA-A Receptor Agonists
  • GABA-A Receptor Antagonists
  • Receptors, GABA-A
  • Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate
  • Picrotoxin
  • Ketamine
  • Nitrous Oxide