Effect of inhaled anesthetic to cultured cortical neurons

Inhaled anesthetics produce many effects and bind to a large number of brain proteins, but it is not yet clear if this is accompanied by widespread changes in gene expression of the biological targets. Such changes in expression might implicate functionally important targets from the large pool of binding targets. Isolated primary cortical neurons were exposed to anesthetics and DNA oligonucleotide microarrays were used to detect and quantify transcriptional changes in neuronal tissue. Keywords: DNA Oligonucleotide Array Primary cortical neurons were treated with 1MAC, 3MAC Halothane and 3MAC Isoflurane, together with no drug control. Pool no drug control was used as Cy3 channel in all chips. The above drug treated and individual control samples were used in Cy5 channel.