Does pressure antagonize anesthesia? High-pressure stopped-flow study of firefly luciferase and anatomy of initial flash

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 1 I, 1999, Pages 478-482

  Ueda, Issaku ^a,e   Minami, Hideyuki ^b,c   Matsuki, Hitoshi ^a,d   Inoue, Tohru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^e VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE;

ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYPERBARISM; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FOLDING;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0032929270     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)77215-2     Document Type: Article

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