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Syntaxin1A-mediated Resistance and Hypersensitivity to Isoflurane in Drosophila melanogaster.
Anesthesiology - 1 May 2015
Zalucki Oressia H, Menon Hareesh, Kottler Benjamin, Faville Richard, Day Rebecca, Bademosi Adekunle T, Lavidis Nickolas, Karunanithi Shanker, van Swinderen Bruno
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BACKGROUND: Recent evidence suggests that general anesthetics activate endogenous sleep pathways, yet this mechanism cannot explain the entirety of general anesthesia. General anesthetics could disrupt synaptic release processes, as previous work in Caenorhabditis elegans and in vitro cell preparations suggested a role for the soluble NSF attachment protein receptor protein, syntaxin1A, in mediating resistance to...
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