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| Keywords: Lipid bilayer expansion hypothesis of anesthetic effect.png en bulky and hydrophobic anesthetic molecules accumulate inside the neuronal cell membrane causing its distortion and expansion thickening due to volume displacement Membrane thickening reversibly alters function of membrane ion channels thus providing anesthetic effect Actual chemical structure of the anesthetic agent per se was not important but its molecular volume plays the major role the more space within membrane is occupied by anesthetic - the greater is the anesthetic effect Own Akuznetsova 2009-04-20 public domain Check categories 2009 April 22 en wikipedia Outdated_theories_of_anaesthetic_action Pain History of science 4 Surgery Pain History of medicine Lipid bilayers | ||||
