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Anaesthetic steroids--a review
V L Kumar1, J Malhotra, V Kumar
1Department of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
Indian Journal of Medical Sciences
|April 1, 1993
Abstract:
Steroids produce anaesthesia besides producing the well known metabolic and hormonal effects. A number of anaesthetic steroids have been synthesized and tried clinically. Hydroxydione, althesin, minaxolone and pregnanolone are among those studied in detail. They act through GABAergic mechanism and are known to be advantageous over barbiturates.