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Anesthetics

Known as: Anesthestic Drugs, Anaesthetic Agent, anesthetic drug 
A drug or other substance that causes a loss of feeling or awareness. Local anesthetics cause a loss of feeling in one small area of the body… 
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Adjuvants, AnesthesiaAnalgesicsAnesthesia proceduresAnesthesiology

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Review
2005
Review
2005
Complications of anaesthesia in neuromuscular disorders
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
A general model for the interaction of foreign molecules with lipid membranes: drugs and anaesthetics.
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Pregnanolone emulsion A preliminary pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic study of a new intravenous anaesthetic agent
Pregnanolone emulsion, a new steroid anaesthetic agent, was administered intravenously as bolus doses to six young healthy male… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Effects of anaesthetics and anticonvulsants on the action of kainic acid in the rat hippocampus.
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Model for action of local anaesthetics
Sodium channels in nerve membranes are postulated to be surrounded by lipid molecules in the gel (or crystalline) phase. Addition… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
General anaesthetics can selectively perturb lipid bilayer membranes
THE circumstantial evidence that anaesthetics act primarily by increasing the fluidity of membranes is quite strong. The gaseous… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Impulse conduction in the myelinated giant fibers of the earthworm. Structure and function of the dorsal nodes in the median giant fiber
  • J. Günther
  • The Journal of comparative neurology
  • 1976
  • Corpus ID: 11826323
The dorsal openings in the myelin sheath of the median giant fiber (MGF) of the earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris L.) have been… 
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Local anesthetics affect transmembrane cytoskeletal control of mobility and distribution of cell surface receptors.
Tertiary amine local anesthetics facilitated concanavalin A-induced redistribution of lectin receptors on murine BALB/3T3 cells… 
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Pentobarbital modulates transmitter effects on mouse spinal neurones grown in tissue culture
GENERAL anaesthetics depress postsynaptic excitatory transmission in the vertebrate central and peripheral nervous systems1–4… 
Highly Cited
1967
Highly Cited
1967
Action Potential Phenomena in Experimental Bimolecular Lipid Membranes
A MOLECULAR mechanism which develops multivibrator kinetics such as those shown in Figs. 1 and 2 has been constructed in… 
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