Inhalational anesthetics activate two-pore-domain background K+ channels

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 422-426

  Patel, Amanda J ^a   Honoré, Eric ^a   Lesage, Florian ^a   Fink, Michel ^a   Romey, Georges ^a   Lazdunski, Michel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROFORM; ETHER; HALOTHANE; ISOFLURANE; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; VOLATILE AGENT;

AMNESIA; ANALGESIA; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL STRAIN COS1; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TARGET CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANIMALS; COS CELLS; LYMNAEA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POROSITY; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, TANDEM PORE DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0033366538     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/8084     Document Type: Article

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