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Effects of anesthetics on mutant N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors expressed in Xenopus oocytes.
The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics - 1 Jul 2006
Ogata Junichi, Shiraishi Munehiro, Namba Tsunehisa, Smothers C Thetford, Woodward John J, Harris R Adron
Abstract excerpt
Alcohols, inhaled anesthetics, and some injectable anesthetics inhibit the function of N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, but the mechanisms responsible for this inhibition are not fully understood. Recently, it was shown that ethanol inhibition of NMDA receptors was reduced by mutation of residues in the transmembrane (TM) segment 3 of the NR1 subunit (F639A) or in TM4 of the NR2A subunit (A825W), suggesting...
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