Structural studies of the actions of anesthetic drugs on the γ-aminobutyric acid type A receptor.

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Published in Anesthesiology on December 01, 2011

Authors

Gustav Akk1, Joe Henry Steinbach

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA. akk@morpheus.wustl.edu

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