title: Anesthetic mechanisms: worms light the way.
abstract: In the nematode C. elegans, immobility induced by the anesthetic halothane is coupled to its ability to modulate neuronal resting membrane potential, perhaps through effects on leak channels; a similar anesthetic, isoflurane, appears to work a different way.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Roderic.Eckenhoff@uphs.upenn.edu
authors.forename: Roderic G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Eckenhoff
mesh_terms: D018685:Anesthetics, Inhalation / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000187:drug effects*; D059329:Cholinergic Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D006221:Halothane / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007530:Isoflurane / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008564:Membrane Potentials
chemical_list: D018685:Anesthetics, Inhalation; D007530:Isoflurane; D006221:Halothane