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Mitochondrial complex I function modulates volatile anesthetic sensitivity in C. elegans.
Current biology : CB - 22 Aug 2006
Falk Marni J, Kayser Ernst-Bernhard, Morgan Philip G, Sedensky Margaret M
Abstract excerpt
Despite the widespread clinical use of volatile anesthetics, their mechanisms of action remain unknown [1-6]. An unbiased genetic screen in the nematode C. elegans for animals with altered volatile anesthetic sensitivity identified a mutant in a nuclear-encoded subunit of mitochondrial complex I [7,8]. This raised the question of whether mitochondrial dysfunction might be the primary mechanism by which volatile...
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