II. Fatty acid amides are putative endogenous ligands for anaesthetic recognition sites in mammalian CNS

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 380-384

  Laws, D ^a,b   Verdon, B ^a   Coyne, L ^a   Lees, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b SUNDERLAND ROYAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ALCOHOL; ALFAXALONE; AMIDE; ANESTHETIC AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR AGONIST; ETOMIDATE; FATTY ACID; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ION CHANNEL; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; LIGAND; LIPID; NITROUS OXIDE; OCTANOL; OLEAMIDE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM ION; SOLVENT; XENON; OLEIC ACID; OLEYLAMIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG SENSITIVITY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE; MAMMAL; MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEREOCHEMISTRY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; METABOLISM;

AMIDES; ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; LIGANDS; OLEIC ACIDS;

EID: 0034741665     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/87.3.380     Document Type: Editorial

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