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Ketamine blockade of voltage-gated sodium channels: evidence for a shared receptor site with local anesthetics.
Anesthesiology - 1 Dec 2001
Wagner L E, Gingrich K J, Kulli J C, Yang J
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BACKGROUND: The general anesthetic ketamine is known to be an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor blocker. Although ketamine also blocks voltage-gated sodium channels in a local anesthetic-like fashion, little information exists on the molecular pharmacology of this interaction. We measured the effects of ketamine on sodium channels. METHODS: Wild-type and mutant (F1579A) recombinant rat skeletal muscle sodium channels...
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