Inhalational anaesthetics and n-alcohols share a site of action in the neuronal Shaw2 Kv channel: Research paper

British Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 159, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1475-1485

  Bhattacharji, Aditya ^a   Klett, Nathan ^a   Go, Ramon Christopher V ^b   Covarrubias, Manuel ^a,c  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaesthetic binding site; General anaesthesia; Global kinetic modelling; Potassium channel; S4S5 linker

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BUTANOL; HALOTHANE; ISOFLURANE; SHAW POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SHAW2 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ALCOHOL INTERACTION; DRUG BINDING SITE; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLTAGE CLAMP; XENOPUS;

EID: 77949846363     PISSN: 00071188     EISSN: 14765381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.2010.00642.x     Document Type: Article

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