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Clinical anesthesiologists have an increasing opportunity to anesthetize elderly patients with dementia. In order to investigate whether the senile dementia modifies the anesthetic actions in the central nervous systems, we have studied effects of general anesthetics on the hippocampal synaptic transmission in the senescence-accelerated mice (SAM-P8 and SAM-R1). The characteristic feature of SAM-P8 mouse shows Alzheimer-type deficits in learning and memory, whereas SAM-R1 mouse has no neurological impairment. Field population spikes of CA1 pyramidal neurons were elicited, following the activation of recurrent inhibition. The pre-pulses were applied as train stimuli to activate release and then deplete GABA. Volatile and intravenous anesthetics had greater actions on inhibitory synaptic transmission in SAM-P8 than in SAM-R1, due to the increase in GABA release from presynaptic terminals.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 2010/04/01 → 2014/03/31 |
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