Neonatal anesthesia and dysregulation of the epigenome

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Each year, millions of infants and children are anesthetized for medical and surgical procedures. Yet, a substantial body of preclinical evidence suggests that anesthetics are neurotoxins that cause rapid and widespread apoptotic cell death in the brains of infant rodents and nonhuman primates. These animals have persistent impairments in cognition and behavior many weeks or months after anesthesia exposure,...

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