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Ecotoxicology of narcosis: Stereoselectivity and potential target sites.

Chemosphere 72, 1256-1259 (2008)
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The stereoselectivity of certain anesthetics is currently thought to be inconsistent with lipid theories of narcosis. The EC(50)-values of etomidate enantiomers for tadpole narcosis are now examined as a function of octanol/water partition coefficients, and enhancement factors for predicted over experimental EC(50) values are determined from a calibration curve for non-selective narcosis. The unfavored S-(-)-enantiomers of etomidate and two analogues surprisingly still fulfill the Meyer-Overton rule. The R(+)-enantiomers of etomidate and four structural analogues are up to 34-fold more active than expected. The non-chiral anesthetic, propofol, is 8-fold more active than expected. It is concluded that there may be two pathways to tadpole narcosis: enhanced narcosis involving specific receptor binding sites and non-selective narcosis corresponding to the Meyer-Overton rule and operating on the lipid/protein interface.
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Publikationstyp Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
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Schlagwörter Tadpole narcosis; Stereoselectivity; Etomidate; Propofol; GABAA channel; Lipid/protein interface
ISSN (print) / ISBN 0045-6535
e-ISSN 1879-1298
Zeitschrift Chemosphere
Quellenangaben Band: 72, Heft: 9, Seiten: 1256-1259 Artikelnummer: , Supplement: ,
Verlag Elsevier
Verlagsort Kidlington, Oxford
Nichtpatentliteratur Publikationen
Begutachtungsstatus Peer reviewed