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ReviewFrontiers in cellular neuroscience2026

Developmental stage-dependent neurotoxicity of sevoflurane: evidence from brain organoids.

Niqi Chen, Yanting Zhang, Yeru Chen, Gang Chen

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Review in Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Niqi ChenDepartment of Anesthesiology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Yanting ZhangDepartment of Anesthesiology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Yeru ChenDepartment of Anesthesiology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Gang ChenDepartment of Anesthesiology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sevoflurane is widely used in pediatric anesthesia because it allows rapid induction and recovery, yet its use during vulnerable periods of brain development has raised concerns about long-term neurocognitive effects. Experimental data indicate that sevoflurane engages multiple interacting pathways, including mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative and iron-dependent injury, and immune-mediated synaptic and inflammatory responses, whose net impact depends on dose, timing, and exposure duration. Human brain organoids have meanwhile emerged as human-based three-dimensional models that reproduce key aspects of cortical and midbrain development and permit clinically relevant exposure paradigms to be tested

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brain organoidsdevelopmental neurotoxicityferroptosismitochondrial dysfunctionneural progenitor cellsneuroinflammationoxidative stresssevoflurane

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PMID41878540
PMCPMC13006222

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