The Shaker Potassium Channel Is No Target for Xenon Anesthesia in Short-Sleeping Drosophila melanogaster Mutants

Background. Xenon seems to be an ideal anesthetic drug. To explore if next to the antagonism at the NMDA-receptor other molecular targets are involved, we tested the xenon requirement in short sleeping Drosophila shaker mutants and in 𝑛𝑎[ℎ𝑎𝑟38]. Methods. The Drosophila melanogaster strains wildtype...

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Main Authors: C. Schaper, J. Höcker, R. Böhm, T. Roeder, B. Bein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:The Scientific World Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/2012/373709