A neomorphic syntaxin mutation blocks volatile-anesthetic action in Caenorhabditis elegans
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A neomorphic syntaxin mutation blocks volatile-anesthetic action in Caenorhabditis elegans.
The molecular mechanisms underlying general anesthesia are unknown. For volatile general anesthetics (VAs), indirect evidence for both lipid and protein targets has been found. However, no in vivo data have implicated clearly any particular lipid or protein in the control of sensitivity to clinical concentrations of VAs. Genetics provides one approach toward identifying these mechanisms, but ge...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.5.2479