anesthesia

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Here's some more about anesthesia:

Anesthesia increases risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in
patients with genetic predisposition
Findings of Spanish researchers published in prestigious Journal of
Alzheimer's Disease

Dr. María Ángeles Mena, Researcher at Centro de Investigación
Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED) and
Director of the Neuropharmacology Laboratory at Hospital Ramón y Cajal
(Madrid, Spain), coordinated the study performed by predoctoral
student Juan Perucho and others.

The study "Anesthesia with isoflurane increases long lasting
behavioral changes and amyloid pathology of Alzheimer's disease in
mice" confirms that anesthesia is safe for normal mice but potentially
harmful for mice with genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease
(AD).

Over several months, investigations have focused on analyzing the
effects of the anesthesia in normal mice and in mice with mutations
that produce AD...
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/ip-air032410.php