Sites of alcohol and volatile anaesthetic action on GABA(A) and glycine receptors

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6649, 1997, Pages 385-389

  John Mihic, S ^a,e   Ye, Qing ^b   Wick, Marilee J ^a,c   Koltchine, Vladimir V ^b   Krasowski, Matthew D ^b   Finn, Suzanne E ^b   Mascia, Maria Paola ^a   Fernando Valenzuela, C ^a   Hanson, Kirsten K ^b   Greenblatt, Eric P ^d   Adron Harris, R ^a,c   Harrison, Neil L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALCOHOL; ENFLURANE; GLYCINE; LEUCINE; SERINE;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANESTHESIA MECHANISM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOTHESIS; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; ION TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; XENOPUS;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENFLURANE; ETHANOL; GLYCINE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PROPOFOL; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE; TRYPTOPHAN; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1842328604     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/38738     Document Type: Article

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