Looking at retinal cells may provide new approach to assessing anesthetic neurotoxicity in children

Saturday, October 17, 2015 - 18:00 in Health & Medicine

Could looking at the eyes provide a new way of studying how anesthesia affects the developing brain? The retinas of immature mice exposed to one widely used general anesthetic show evidence of "programmed cell death," or apoptosis, reports a study.

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