Topic: Experimental Surgery

Topic Review Dexmedetomidine for Neurological Surgery

Accepted, February 10, 2005. DEXMEDETOMIDINE IS A new intravenous drug gaining popularity in neuroanesthesia and neurocritical care practice. This 2-adrenergic receptor agonist offers a unique “cooperative sedation,” anxiolysis, and analgesia with no respiratory depression. Cerebral effects are generally consistent with a desirable neurophysiological profile, including neuroprotective character...

Textbook of Experimental Surgery

that ' of all factors contributing to the remarkable advances which have been made in surgery during the past fifty years, none has been of greater importance than the influence of laboratory experimentation This is a book of convenient size, although it consists of 528 pages, and, as may be expected, it makes in places difficult reading, in spite of a generous display of effective illustration...

Special Topic Cytokines, Growth Factors, and Plastic Surgery

Numerous inflammatory cytokines and growth factors have been identified and are known to be essential for normal wound healing and host defense, and many have been implicated in disease states treated by plastic surgeons. Cytokines and growth factors are members of a large functional group of polypeptide regulatory molecules secreted by different cell lines. These peptides exert their influence...

Experimental Models in Liver Surgery

Ischemia-Reperfusion (I/R) injury is an important cause of liver damage occurring during surgical procedures including hepatic resections and liver transplantation (LT) [1-3]. The shortage of organs has led centers to expand their criteria for the acceptance of marginal grafts that exhibit poor tolerance to I/R [4]. Some of these include the use of organs from old‐ er donors and grafts such as ...

Perfluoropentane in experimental ocular surgery.