How general anesthetics work remains a topic of ongoing study. A parallel field of research has sought to identify methods to reverse general anesthesia. Reversal agents could …
M McGrath, H Hoyt, A Pence… - British journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Purpose In addition to binding to the classical high‐affinity extracellular benzodiazepine binding site of the GABAA receptor, some benzodiazepines occupy …
Increasing ambient pressure has been suggested to reverse general anaesthesia and provides support for the 'lipid theory'. Anaesthetic dissolution into cell membranes is said to …
Background: The degree to which different volatile anesthetics depress carotid body hypoxic response relates to their ability to activate TASK potassium channels. Most commonly …
M McGrath, H Hoyt, A Pence, SS Jayakar… - …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Recent cryo-electron microscopic imaging studies have shown that in addition to binding to the classical extracellular benzodiazepine binding site of the α1β3γ2L γ …
M McGrath, Z Yu, SS Jayakar, C Ma, M Tolia… - …, 2018 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Naphthalene-etomidate, an etomidate analog containing a bulky phenyl ring substituent group, possesses very low γ-aminobutyric acid type A (GABAA) receptor efficacy …
DM Plasencia, LH Rodgers, AR Knighton… - Research …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Despite their frequent use across many clinical settings, general anesthetics are medications with lethal side effects and no reversal agents. A fluorinated analogue of …
M McGrath, M Tolia, DE Raines - Pharmacological Reports, 2020 - Springer
Background Many sedative-hypnotic agents are thought to act by positively modulating γ- aminobutyric acid type A (GABA A) receptors. However, for many agents, the location (s) of …