Membrane-mediated anesthesia, also spelled anaesthesia in British usage, is a proposed mechanism of action for anesthetic agents in which the drug produces its effect chiefly through interaction with the lipid bilayer of the cell membrane, rather than by binding to one specific protein receptor. It is offered as one explanation for how a chemically diverse range of anesthetic compounds can all produce the same clinical state of unconsciousness.
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Membrane-mediated anesthesia or anaesthesia (UK) is a mechanism of action that involves an anesthetic agent exerting its pharmaceutical effects primarily through interaction with the lipid bilayer membrane.
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