Ethanol as a general anesthetic: actions in spinal cord

SME Wong, E Fong, DL Tauck, JJ Kendig - European journal of …, 1997 - Elsevier
Ethanol, usually studied in relation to intoxication, is also capable of producing general
anesthesia. The most common standard of anesthetic potency is the concentration which …

Prenatal binge ethanol exposure on gestation days 19–20, but not on days 17–18, increases postnatal ethanol acceptance in rats.

E Díaz-Cenzano, MG Chotro - Behavioral neuroscience, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
Previous research shows that prenatal binge ethanol exposure during gestation days (GD)
17 to 20 of the rat, increases postnatal ethanol intake and enhances ethanol's palatability …

Blood ethanol and free-choice ethanol intake in rats and their progency

PJ Kulkosky - Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 1980 - Elsevier
Outbred male and female Wistar rats demonstrated large and consistent interindividual
variations in nocturnal blood ethanol level (BEL) during ad lib access to food, water and an …

Ethanol-induced tolerance and sex-dependent sensitization in preweanling rats

S Castello, DA Revillo, JC Molina, C Arias - Physiology & Behavior, 2015 - Elsevier
According to genetic studies, the acute stimulating effect of ethanol seems to be associated
with an increased predisposition to consume large quantities of ethanol. Ethanol-induced …

Relative amnesic potency of five inhalational anesthetics follows the Meyer-Overton rule

MT Alkire, LA Gorski - The Journal of the American Society of …, 2004 - pubs.asahq.org
Background Doses of volatile anesthetics around 0.3 minimum alveolar concentration
(MAC) inhibit learning. However, threshold amnesic doses and relative potencies between …

Effect of duration and pattern of chronic ethanol exposure on tolerance to the discriminative stimulus effects of ethanol in C57BL/6J mice

HC Becker, AM Baros - Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental …, 2006 - ASPET
This study was conducted to examine whether amount and/or pattern (intermittent or
continuous) of chronic ethanol exposure subsequently alters sensitivity to the discriminative …

Increased palatability of ethanol after prenatal ethanol exposure is mediated by the opioid system

C Arias, MG Chotro - Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 2005 - Elsevier
Previous studies have shown that prenatal exposure to a moderate dose of ethanol (2 g/kg)
during the last days of gestation of the rat (17–20) not only increases postnatal intake of the …

Hyperbaric ethanol antagonism in mice: Studies on oxygen, nitrogen, strain and sex

RL Alkana, RD Malcolm - Psychopharmacology, 1982 - Springer
Male and female C57BL/6J and male BALBc/J mice were injected with 3.6 g/kg ethanol or
saline and exposed to 1–10 atmospheres absolute (ATA) air, to 1 ATA 80% helium-20 …

Equipotent subanesthetic concentrations of sevoflurane and xenon preventing cold-stimulated vocalization of neonatal rats

H Gill, M Thoresen, S Bishop, E Smit, X Liu… - …, 2014 - pubs.asahq.org
Background: The effects of inhaled anesthetics on the developing brain are studied using
neonatal rodents exposed to fractions of minimum alveolar concentration (to avoid …

Classical genetic analyses of responses to sedative‐hypnotic drugs in crosses derived from long‐sleep and short‐sleep mice

CM de Fiebre, RJ Marley, LL Miner… - Alcoholism: Clinical …, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
A classical (Mendelian) genetic analysis of responses to eight sedative‐hypnotic
compounds (ethanol, urethane, trifluoroethanol, chloral hydrate, barbital, paraldehyde …