Continuous exposure to high levels of waste anesthetic gas (WAG) poses risks to human health 1,2, leading the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to advise that WAG be scavenged to ...

(A) Schematic diagram of the experimental system that detects calcium release from the endoplasmic reticulum by each ryanodine receptor. (B) Isoflurane selectively activates RyR1 (mean ± standard ...

With no major advances in understanding its underlying mechanisms, inhalational anesthesia is kind of a Victorian-era solution in a healthcare industry fueled by innovation. A medical and ...

Since their anesthetic effects were discovered approximately 180 years ago, inhalational anesthetics have been used for general anesthesia in surgical operations. However, the mechanism of their ...

The first successful public demonstration of the inhalational induction of anesthesia took place in the surgical amphitheater of Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16, 1846. The news spread ...

A tiny calcium channel called RyR1 may be the switch that turns on anesthesia during surgery. #medindia #anesthesia #calciumchannels’ In rare cases, patients with abnormal type 1 ryanodine receptors ...