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ArticleScientific reports2018

Enhanced GABAergic actions resulting from the coapplication of the steroid 3α-hydroxy-5α-pregnane-11,20-dione (alfaxalone) with propofol or diazepam.

Lily Q Cao, Michael C Montana, Allison L Germann, Daniel J Shin, Sampurna Chakrabarti, Steven Mennerick, Carla M Yuede, David F Wozniak, Alex S Evers, Gustav Akk

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lily Q CaoDepartments of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
Michael C MontanaDepartments of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
Allison L GermannDepartments of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
Daniel J ShinDepartments of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
Sampurna ChakrabartiDepartments of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2750-3877
Steven MennerickPsychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
Carla M YuedeNeurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
David F WozniakPsychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
Alex S EversDepartments of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
Gustav AkkDepartments of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA. akk@morpheus.wustl.edu.
Washington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

TRAINING PROGRAM IN ANESTHESIOLOGY RESEARCHT32GM108539 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Aaron J Norris · 2014 to 2026
$4.9M
MOLECULAR SITES OF NEUROSTEROID BINDINGR01GM108799 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI EVERS, ALEX S. · 2014 to 2022
$4.0M
SYNERGISTIC ACTIONS OF INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETICSR01GM108580 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI AKK, GUSTAV · 2014 to 2021
$2.4M
A CHEMOGENETIC EVALUATION OF DELTA SUBUNIT EXCLUSION FROM GABA SYNAPSESR21MH111461 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MENNERICK, STEVEN J · 2016 to 2017
$419k
NEUROSTEROIDS AND ANXIETY RELATED NETWORK FUNCTIONR21MH104506 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MENNERICK, STEVEN J · 2014 to 2015
$406k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM108580NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM108799NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH104506NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH111461
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many GABAergic drugs are in clinical use as anesthetics, sedatives, or anxiolytics. We have investigated the actions of the combinations of the neuroactive steroid 3α-hydroxy-5α-pregnane-11,20-dione (alfaxalone) with the intravenous anesthetic propofol or the benzodiazepine diazepam. The goal of the study was to determine whether coapplication of alfaxalone reduces the effective doses and concentrations of propofol and diazepam. Behavioral effects of alfaxalone, propofol, diazepam, and the combinations of the drugs were evaluated during a 30-min activity test in mice. Functional effects of the individual drugs and drug combinations were tested by measuring the decay times of spontaneous inhibitory postsynaptic currents in rat hippocampal neurons, and peak current responses from heterologously expressed concatemeric α1β2γ2L GABA

Indexed as

AnimalsCells, CulturedDiazepamDrug SynergismInhibitory Postsynaptic PotentialsLocomotionMaleMiceNeuronsOocystsPatch-Clamp TechniquesPregnanedionesPropofolRatsReceptors, GABA-ARecombinant ProteinsalphaxaloneDiazepamPregnanedionesPropofolReceptors, GABA-ARecombinant Proteins

Identifiers

PMID29985445
PMCPMC6037692
OpenAlexW2810334238

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