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Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain 2006 6(2):90-92; doi:10.1093/bjaceaccp/mkl010
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Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain | Volume 6 Number 2 2006 © The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia [2006]. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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1. Regarding general anaesthetic activity:
  1. The activity of general anaesthetics can be easily deduced from their chemical structure.
  2. Unitary theories of general anaesthetic action dominate the current literature.
  3. Most general anaesthetics display a high oil:water partition coefficient.
  4. Neuronal cell membranes are composed of a homogenous mixture of lipid and protein.
  5. Some general anaesthetics display stereoselective activity.

2. On possible targets of general anaesthetics:
  1. Transmitter-gated ion channels are the only targets for general anaesthetic agents.
  2. Transmitter-gated ion channels mediate the majority of fast excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission within the CNS.
  3. 5-HT3 and nicotinic acetylcholine (nAch) receptors usually inhibit the activity of CNS neurones.
  4. GABAA and strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors inhibit the activity of CNS neurones.
  5. GABAB receptors are considered important targets for general anaesthetics.

3. Concerning GABAA receptors:
  1. GABA is synthesized after the enzymatic conversion of the excitatory amino acid glutamate.
  2. GABAA receptors are composed of five subunits concentrically arranged around an . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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