Mechanisms Revealed Through General Anesthetic Photolabeling

Current Anesthesiology Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 57-66

  Weiser, Brian P ^a   Woll, Kellie A ^a   Dailey, William P ^b   Eckenhoff, Roderic G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Anesthetic; Diazirine; Ion channel; Photoaffinity labeling; Photolabel

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906499007     PISSN: 21676275     EISSN: 15233855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40140-013-0040-7     Document Type: Article

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