A discrete site for general anesthetics on a postsynaptic receptor.

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General anesthetics depress central nervous system excitability via a mechanism that probably involves effects on synaptic ion channels, but the fundamental molecular nature of the site where they act is unknown. Although the importance of hydrophobicity for general anesthetic drug potency has long been established, it remains uncertain whether these "nonspecific" drugs act on membrane proteins directly or by...

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