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SUBMITTER: Shiogai Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3446920 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shiogai Yuri Y Dhamala Mukesh M Oshima Kumiko K Hasler Martin M
PloS one 20120919 9
General anesthetics are used during medical and surgical procedures to reversibly induce a state of total unconsciousness in patients. Here, we investigate, from a dynamic network perspective, how the cortical and cardiovascular systems behave during anesthesia by applying nonparametric spectral techniques to cortical electroencephalography, electrocardiogram and respiratory signals recorded from anesthetized rats under two drugs, ketamine-xylazine (KX) and pentobarbital (PB). We find that the p ...[more]