Where do general anaesthetics act?
- 1 July 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 274 (5669) , 339-342
- https://doi.org/10.1038/274339a0
Abstract
General anaesthetics were found to have no effect on lipid bilayer structures when studied using X-ray and neutron diffraction. Combined gaseous and aqueous phase solubility data suggested that the primary site of action of general anaesthetics has both polar and nonpolar characteristics, and probably involves protein.This publication has 27 references indexed in Scilit:
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