Molecular mechanism of general anesthesia: I. Fluorescence studies in mitochondrial membranes
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Molecular mechanism of general anesthesia: I. Fluorescence studies in mitochondrial membranes
Boll Soc Ital Biol Sper.
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Abstract
We have tested the working hypothesis that anesthetics, by labilizing lipid-protein interactions, induce conformational changes in membrane proteins involved in the transmission of neural impulses. In the first communication of this series we report that general anesthetics induce changes in the fluorescence of the probes ANS and NPN in model membranes, lipid vesicles and mitochondria. The changes observed concern the quantumyield but not the position of the emission maximum. Such changes may be interpreted as due to fluidization of the membrane core (NPN), accompanied by variable effects in the membrane surface(ANS).
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