| Literature DB >> 29588035 |
Andrew McKinstry-Wu1, Charles W Carspecken2, Alex Proekt2, Max B Kelz2.
Abstract
The existence of a barrier between anesthetic behavioral state transitions has been observed across phyla, but demonstrating that such a barrier exists and is not a pharmacokinetic artifact has not yet been possible in humans. Such an investigation requires temporally precise information regarding the brain concentration of anesthetic in order to demonstrate the specific pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic mismatch that is hysteresis. We propose a method to noninvasively determine brain tissue anesthetic concentration using computerized tomography and the radiopaque gaseous anesthetic xenon. Such a technique can be used to investigate pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic mismatches in humans.Entities:
Keywords: Anesthesia; Computerized tomography; Human; Hysteresis; Xenon
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Year: 2018 PMID: 29588035 PMCID: PMC6241249 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2018.01.011
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Methods Enzymol ISSN: 0076-6879 Impact factor: 1.600