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A succession of anesthetic endpoints in the Drosophila brain.
Journal of neurobiology - 15 Sept 2006
van Swinderen Bruno
Abstract excerpt
General anesthetics abolish behavioral responsiveness in all animals, and in humans this is accompanied by loss of consciousness. Whether similar target mechanisms and behavioral endpoints exist across species remains controversial, although model organisms have been successfully used to study mechanisms of anesthesia. In Drosophila, a number of key mutants have been characterized as hypersensitive or resistant...
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