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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Studies on the mechanism of general anesthesia.

Mahmud Arif Pavel, E Nicholas Petersen, Hao Wang, Richard A Lerner, Scott B Hansen

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 115 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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115citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
11.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

115 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 206 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. The cryo-EM structure and physical basis for anesthetic inhibition of the THIK1 K2P channel.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mahmud Arif PavelDepartment of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL 33458.
E Nicholas PetersenDepartment of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL 33458.ORCID 0000-0002-3243-9611
Hao WangDepartment of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL 33458.ORCID 0000-0003-1966-7940
Richard A LernerDepartment of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037 shansen@scripps.edu rlerner@scripps.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4399-874X
Scott B HansenDepartment of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL 33458; shansen@scripps.edu rlerner@scripps.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-0086-9753
Scripps Research Institute · US

Funding

Molecular Mechanism of MechanosensationDP2NS087943 · NINDS · SCRIPPS FLORIDA · PI HANSEN, SCOTT B · 2013 to 2013
$2.8M
The role of lipid raft disruption in the activation of TREK-1 channels by anestheticsR01NS112534 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI HANSEN, SCOTT B · 2019 to 2023
$2.2M
NINDS NIH HHS DP2 NS087943NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS112534
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inhaled anesthetics are a chemically diverse collection of hydrophobic molecules that robustly activate TWIK-related K

Indexed as

Anesthetics, InhalationAnimalsCell MembraneChloroformDrosophilaDrosophila ProteinsIsofluranePhosphatidic AcidsPhospholipase DPotassium ChannelsPotassium Channels, Tandem Pore DomainAnesthetics, InhalationChloroformDrosophila ProteinsIsofluranePhosphatidic AcidsPhospholipase Dphospholipase D2potassium channel protein TREK-1Potassium ChannelsPotassium Channels, Tandem Pore Domainconsciousnesslipid raftphospholipase Dpotassium channelsubstrate presentation

Identifiers

PMID32467161
PMCPMC7306821
OpenAlexW3029613935

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