Mechanistic insights into how anesthetic agent Propofol may deteriorate memory, learning, and cognition:  Profopol/Milk of amnesia, the commonly used anesthetic agent, decreases Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases 2 (TIMP2) and BDNF levels, attenuates cognition, and aggravates age-associated decline in memory and learning, via up-regulation of its target genes, 1/October/2018, 12.58 am