abstract：BACKGROUND:Because the nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) coupled pathway is believed to amplify inflammation prevailing in sepsis, the authors tested the hypotheses that the insertion-deletion polymorphism (-94ins/delATTG) (1) alters nuclear translocation of nuclear factor-κB and activator protein-1 (NF-κB1) in monocytes after...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Adamzik M,Schäfer S,Frey UH,Becker A,Kreuzer M,Winning S,Frede S,Steinmann J,Fandrey J,Zacharowski K,Siffert W,Peters J,Hartmann M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lactate has been shown to be a prognostic biomarker in trauma. Although lactate clearance has already been proposed as an intermediate endpoint in randomized trials, its precise role in trauma patients remains to be determined. METHODS:Blood lactate levels and lactate clearance (LC) were calculated at admis...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Régnier MA,Raux M,Le Manach Y,Asencio Y,Gaillard J,Devilliers C,Langeron O,Riou B

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In previous studies, the authors showed that anesthetics affect the expression ratios of many genes in rat liver. microRNAs (miRNA) negatively regulate more than 30% of genes in cells, and control cell proliferation, inflammation, and metabolism. The authors hypothesized that anesthetics influence miRNA expr...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Ishikawa M,Tanaka S,Arai M,Genda Y,Sakamoto A

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In acute lung injury positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) and recruitment maneuver are proposed to optimize arterial oxygenation. The aim of the study was to evaluate the impact of such a strategy on lung histological inflammation and hyperinflation in pigs with acid aspiration-induced lung injury. METHO...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Ambrosio AM,Luo R,Fantoni DT,Gutierres C,Lu Q,Gu WJ,Otsuki DA,Malbouisson LM,Auler JO Jr,Rouby JJ,Experimental ARDS Study Group.

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Work suggests the amnesia from dexmedetomidine (an α2-adrenergic agonist) is caused by a failure of information to be encoded into long-term memory and that dexmedetomidine might differentially affect memory for emotionally arousing material. We investigated these issues in humans using event-related neuroim...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Hayama HR,Drumheller KM,Mastromonaco M,Reist C,Cahill LF,Alkire MT

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The authors sought to determine whether subjects with pathophysiological conditions that are characterized by increased concentrations of aldosterone have increased susceptibility to the side effects of neonatal anesthesia with sevoflurane. METHODS:Postnatal day 4-20 (P4-P20) rats were exposed to sevofluran...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Cao W,Pavlinec C,Gravenstein N,Seubert CN,Martynyuk AE

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:About one in four patients suffers from postoperative nausea and vomiting. Fortunately, risk scores have been developed to better manage this outcome in hospitalized patients, but there is currently no risk score for postdischarge nausea and vomiting (PDNV) in ambulatory surgical patients. METHODS:We conduc...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Apfel CC,Philip BK,Cakmakkaya OS,Shilling A,Shi YY,Leslie JB,Allard M,Turan A,Windle P,Odom-Forren J,Hooper VD,Radke OC,Ruiz J,Kovac A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The current investigation aimed to study the efficacy of hemostatic therapy guided either by conventional coagulation analyses or point-of-care (POC) testing in coagulopathic cardiac surgery patients. METHODS:Patients undergoing complex cardiac surgery were assessed for eligibility. Those patients in whom...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Weber CF,Görlinger K,Meininger D,Herrmann E,Bingold T,Moritz A,Cohn LH,Zacharowski K

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Xenon is a general anesthetic with neuroprotective properties. Xenon inhibition at the glycine-binding site of the N-Methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor mediates xenon neuroprotection against ischemic injury in vitro. Here we identify specific amino acids important for xenon binding to the NMDA receptor, with...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Armstrong SP,Banks PJ,McKitrick TJ,Geldart CH,Edge CJ,Babla R,Simillis C,Franks NP,Dickinson R

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Propofol can be associated with delayed awakening after prolonged infusion. The aim of this study was to characterize the preclinical pharmacology of AZD-3043, a positive allosteric modulator of the γ-aminobutyric acid type A (GABA(A)) receptor containing a metabolically labile ester moiety. The authors post...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Egan TD,Obara S,Jenkins TE,Jaw-Tsai SS,Amagasu S,Cook DR,Steffensen SC,Beattie DT

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We examined the effects of different anesthetics on cerebral oxygenation and systemic hemodynamics in patients undergoing surgery in beach chair position (BCP). Jugular venous bulb oxygen saturation (SjvO2) and regional cerebral tissue oxygen saturation (SctO2) were determined while patients were placed from...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Jeong H,Jeong S,Lim HJ,Lee J,Yoo KY

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The medical, social, and economic effects of the teaching mission on delivery of care at an academic medical center (AMC) are not fully understood. When a free-standing private practice ambulatory clinic with no teaching mission was merged into an AMC, a natural experiment was created. The authors compared p...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Williams KA,Chambers CG,Dada M,Hough D,Aron R,Ulatowski JA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Melanocortin peptides improve hemodynamic parameters and prevent death during severe hemorrhagic shock. In the present research we determined influences of a synthetic melanocortin 1/4 receptor agonist on the molecular changes that occur in rat liver during hemorrhage. METHODS:Controlled-volume hemorrhage w...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Lonati C,Sordi A,Giuliani D,Spaccapelo L,Leonardi P,Carlin A,Ottani A,Galantucci M,Grieco P,Catania A,Guarini S

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The memory-blocking properties of general anesthetics are of high clinical relevance and scientific interest. The inhalational anesthetic xenon antagonizes N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors. It is unknown if xenon affects long-term potentiation (LTP), a cellular correlate for memory formation. In hippoca...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Kratzer S,Mattusch C,Kochs E,Eder M,Haseneder R,Rammes G

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Kinins (e.g., bradykinin) acting through the constitutively expressed B2 and the injury-induced B1 receptors are involved in pain and hyperalgesia, as previously shown by use of receptor-selective antagonists and single-receptor knockout models. Because the overall contribution of kinins to painful processes...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Cayla C,Labuz D,Machelska H,Bader M,Schäfer M,Stein C

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent advances have indicated a complex interplay between the autonomic nervous system and the innate immune system. Targeting neural networks for the treatment of sepsis is being developed as a therapeutic strategy. Because electroacupuncture at select acupoints can modulate activities of the autonomic ner...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Song JG,Li HH,Cao YF,Lv X,Zhang P,Li YS,Zheng YJ,Li Q,Yin PH,Song SL,Wang HY,Wang XR

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposure of rhesus macaque fetuses for 24 h or neonates for 9 h to ketamine anesthesia causes neuroapoptosis in the developing brain. The current study clarifies the minimum exposure required for and the extent and spatial distribution of ketamine-induced neuroapoptosis in rhesus fetuses and neonates. METHO...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Brambrink AM,Evers AS,Avidan MS,Farber NB,Smith DJ,Martin LD,Dissen GA,Creeley CE,Olney JW

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We evaluated whether spectral entropy (SpE) can measure the depth of hypnosis and the hypnotic drug effect in children during total intravenous anesthesia. METHODS:Sixty healthy children, aged 3-16 yr, were studied. Anesthesia was induced with an increasing target controlled infusion of propofol, and mainta...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Klockars JG,Hiller A,Münte S,van Gils MJ,Taivainen T

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intrathecal methylprednisolone acetate (MPA) has been used in patients with chronic pain syndromes. Its safety has been debated after reports of adverse events. No systematic preclinical evaluation of MPA has been reported. In the current study, the acute and long-term effects of intrathecal MPA on dog spina...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Rijsdijk M,van Wijck AJ,Kalkman CJ,Meulenhoff PC,Grafe MR,Steinauer J,Yaksh TL

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The long-lasting high-affinity opioid buprenorphine has complex pharmacology, including ceiling effects with respect to analgesia and respiratory depression. Plasma concentrations of the major buprenorphine metabolites norbuprenorphine, buprenorphine-3-glucuronide, and norbuprenorphine-3-glucuronide approxim...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Brown SM,Holtzman M,Kim T,Kharasch ED

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opioid receptors have been targeted for the treatment of pain and related disorders for thousands of years and remain the most widely used analgesics in the clinic. Mu (μ), kappa (κ), and delta (δ) opioid receptors represent the originally classified receptor subtypes, with opioid receptor like-1 (ORL1) being the leas...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Al-Hasani R,Bruchas MR

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein kinase C (PKC) is a family of serine/threonine kinases that contains more than 10 isozymes. Evidence suggests that PKC may play important roles in pain modulation, but the isozyme-specific effects of PKC on different aspects of pain modulation are not fully understood. We hypothesize that different P...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Zhao C,Leitges M,Gereau RW 4th

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prescription opioid abuse is a significant concern in treating chronic pain, yet few studies examine how neuropathic pain alters the abuse liability of commonly abused prescription opioids. METHODS:Normal and spinal nerve ligated (SNL) rats were implanted with electrodes into the left ventral tegmental area...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Ewan EE,Martin TJ

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinically used general anesthetics, alone or in combination, are damaging to the developing mammalian brain. In addition to causing widespread apoptotic neurodegeneration in vulnerable brain regions, exposure to general anesthesia at the peak of synaptogenesis causes learning and memory deficiencies later i...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Sanchez V,Feinstein SD,Lunardi N,Joksovic PM,Boscolo A,Todorovic SM,Jevtovic-Todorovic V

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiac protection by volatile anesthetic-induced preconditioning and ischemic preconditioning have similar signaling pathways. Recently, it was reported that augmentation of protein modified with O-linked β-N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) contributes to cardiac protection. This study investigated the role of...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Hirose K,Tsutsumi YM,Tsutsumi R,Shono M,Katayama E,Kinoshita M,Tanaka K,Oshita S

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Offset analgesia, in which a disproportionally large amount of analgesia becomes apparent upon a slight decrease in noxious heat stimulation, has not been described previously in patients with chronic pain. METHODS:Offset analgesia responses in 10 patients with neuropathic pain (in both legs) were compared ...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Niesters M,Hoitsma E,Sarton E,Aarts L,Dahan A

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic pain is associated with depression. In rodents, pain is often assessed by sensory hypersensitivity, which does not sufficiently measure affective responses. Low-dose ketamine has been used to treat both pain and depression, but it is not clear whether ketamine can relieve depression associated with c...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Wang J,Goffer Y,Xu D,Tukey DS,Shamir DB,Eberle SE,Zou AH,Blanck TJ,Ziff EB

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mechanisms that underlie the supraspinal central nervous system effects of systemic lidocaine are poorly understood and not solely explained by Na(+) channel blockade. Among other potential targets is the hyperpolarization-activated cation current, I(h), which is blocked by lidocaine in peripheral neuron...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Putrenko I,Schwarz SK

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Buprenorphine, a partial μ-opioid receptor agonist and κ-opioid receptor antagonist, is an effective analgesic. The effects of buprenorphine on sleep have not been well characterized. This study tested the hypothesis that an antinociceptive dose of buprenorphine decreases sleep and decreases adenosine concen...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Gauthier EA,Guzick SE,Brummett CM,Baghdoyan HA,Lydic R

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During deep brain stimulation implant surgery, microelectrode recordings are used to map the location of targeted neurons. The effects produced by propofol or remifentanil on discharge activity of subthalamic neurons were studied intraoperatively to determine whether they alter neuronal activity. METHODS:Mi...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Maciver MB,Bronte-Stewart HM,Henderson JM,Jaffe RA,Brock-Utne JG

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The permutation entropy, the approximate entropy, and the index of consciousness are some of the most recently studied electroencephalogram-derived indexes. In this work, a thorough comparison of these indexes was performed using propofol anesthesia in a rabbit model. METHODS:Six rabbits were anesthetized w...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Silva A,Campos S,Monteiro J,Venâncio C,Costa B,Guedes de Pinho P,Antunes L

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One-lung ventilation (OLV) results in alveolar proinflammatory effects, whereas their extent may depend on administration of anesthetic drugs. The current study evaluates the effects of different volatile anesthetics compared with an intravenous anesthetic and the relationship between pulmonary and systemic ...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Schilling T,Kozian A,Senturk M,Huth C,Reinhold A,Hedenstierna G,Hachenberg T

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute lung injury (ALI) is a serious postoperative complication with limited treatment options. A preoperative risk-prediction model would assist clinicians and scientists interested in ALI. The objective of this investigation was to develop a surgical lung injury prediction (SLIP) model to predict risk of p...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Kor DJ,Warner DO,Alsara A,Fernández-Pérez ER,Malinchoc M,Kashyap R,Li G,Gajic O

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Optimal risk adjustment is a requisite precondition for monitoring quality of care and interpreting public reports of hospital outcomes. Current risk-adjustment measures have been criticized for including baseline variables that are difficult to obtain and inadequately adjusting for high-risk patients. The a...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Dalton JE,Kurz A,Turan A,Mascha EJ,Sessler DI,Saager L

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Atenolol study of 1996 provided evidence that perioperative β-blockade reduced postsurgical mortality. In 1998, the indications for perioperative β-blockade were codified as the Perioperative Cardiac Risk Reduction protocol and implemented at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The current...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Wallace AW,Au S,Cason BA

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Telephone quitlines that provide counseling support are efficacious in helping cigarette smokers quit and have been widely disseminated; currently, they are underused. Surgery represents a teachable moment for smoking cessation, which can benefit surgical outcomes; however, few surgical patients receive smok...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Warner DO,Klesges RC,Dale LC,Offord KP,Schroeder DR,Shi Y,Vickers KS,Danielson DR

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnesium plays a fundamental role in many cellular functions, and thus there is increasing interest in its role in clinical medicine. Although numerous experimental studies indicate positive effects of magnesium in a variety of disease states, large clinical trials often give conflicting results. However, there is cl...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Herroeder S,Schönherr ME,De Hert SG,Hollmann MW

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to characterize cervical cord, root, and bony spine claims in the American Society of Anesthesiologists Closed Claims database to formulate hypotheses regarding mechanisms of injury. METHODS:All general anesthesia claims (1970-2007) in the Closed Claims database were searched to id...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Hindman BJ,Palecek JP,Posner KL,Traynelis VC,Lee LA,Sawin PD,Tredway TL,Todd MM,Domino KB

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rapid elimination of nitrous oxide from the lungs at the end of inhalational anesthesia dilutes alveolar oxygen, producing "diffusion hypoxia." A similar dilutional effect on accompanying volatile anesthetic agent has not been evaluated and may impact the speed of emergence. METHODS:Twenty patients undergoi...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Peyton PJ,Chao I,Weinberg L,Robinson GJ,Thompson BR

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Opioids are powerful analgesics, but are also common drugs of abuse. Few studies have examined how neuropathic pain alters the pharmacology of opioids in modulating limbic pathways that underlie abuse liability. METHODS:Rats with or without spinal nerve ligation (SNL) were implanted with electrodes into t...

journal_title：Anesthesiology

authors： Ewan EE,Martin TJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00