Anesthesia and surgery caused neuroinflammation in the hippocampus, which consequently disrupted the GABAergic system, increased the expressions of surface α5GABAA Rs especially through the P38 MAPK signaling pathway, and eventually led to hippocampus-dependent memory dysfunctions.
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