The biology of general anesthesia from paramecium to primate

MB Kelz, GA Mashour - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
General anesthesia serves a critically important function in the clinical care of human
patients. However, the anesthetized state has foundational implications for biology because …

How drugs get into cells: tested and testable predictions to help discriminate between transporter-mediated uptake and lipoidal bilayer diffusion

DB Kell, SG Oliver - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
One approach to experimental science involves creating hypotheses, then testing them by
varying one or more independent variables, and assessing the effects of this variation on the …

The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2013/14: ion channels

SPH Alexander, HE Benson… - British journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2013/14 provides concise overviews of
the key properties of over 2000 human drug targets with their pharmacology, plus links to an …

Dexmedetomidine promotes biomimetic non-rapid eye movement stage 3 sleep in humans: a pilot study

O Akeju, LE Hobbs, L Gao, SM Burns, KJ Pavone… - Clinical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objectives Sleep, which comprises of rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM stages 1–3
(N1–N3), is a natural occurring state of decreased arousal that is crucial for normal …

Pharmaceutical drug transport: the issues and the implications that it is essentially carrier-mediated only

DB Kell, PD Dobson, SG Oliver - Drug discovery today, 2011 - Elsevier
All cells necessarily contain tens, if not hundreds, of carriers for nutrients and intermediary
metabolites, and the human genome codes for more than 1000 carriers of various kinds …

The promiscuous binding of pharmaceutical drugs and their transporter-mediated uptake into cells: what we (need to) know and how we can do so

DB Kell, PD Dobson, E Bilsland, SG Oliver - Drug discovery today, 2013 - Elsevier
A recent paper in this journal sought to counter evidence for the role of transport proteins in
effecting drug uptake into cells, and questions that transporters can recognize drug …

[PDF][PDF] Intraoperative awareness

GA Mashour, B Orser, MS Avidan - From neurobiology to clinical practice …, 2011 - mpog.org
Intraoperative Awareness Page 1 Intraoperative Awareness From Ether Day to THRIVE George
A. Mashour, MD, Ph.D. Robert B. Sweet Professor & Chair, Department of Anesthesiology …

Role of GABAA receptors in the physiology and pharmacology of sleep

R Winsky‐Sommerer - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Most sedative‐hypnotics used in insomnia treatment target the γ‐aminobutyric acid (GABA)
A receptors. A vast repertoire of GABAA receptor subtypes has been identified and displays …

Activation of orexin system facilitates anesthesia emergence and pain control

W Zhou, K Cheung, S Kyu, L Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Orexin (also known as hypocretin) neurons in the hypothalamus play an essential role in
sleep–wake control, feeding, reward, and energy homeostasis. The likelihood of anesthesia …

Electroencephalographic variation during end maintenance and emergence from surgical anesthesia

D Chander, PS García, JN MacColl, S Illing… - PLoS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The re-establishment of conscious awareness after discontinuing general anesthesia has
often been assumed to be the inverse of loss of consciousness. This is despite the obvious …