Mapping of general anaesthetic target sites provides a molecular basis for cutoff effects

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• Publication year

  1985

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1985-07-26

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Chemistry

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  DOI 10.1038/316349A0PMID 4022125
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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