Anesthetics, Anesthesia, and Plants.

General anesthesia, its nature, and how exactly it works are still poorly understood. Plants can also be anesthetized and lose their responses to external stimuli. Interestingly, plants are known to produce endogenous anesthetic compounds to deal with stress. Plants offer an excellent model object for studies on anesthetics and anesthesia.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Trends in Plant Science

• Publication date

  2019-01-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.tplants.2018.10.006PMID 30446303
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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