Radical pairs may play a role in xenon-induced general anesthesia

Abstract Understanding the mechanisms underlying general anesthesia would be a key step towards understanding consciousness. The process of xenon-induced general anesthesia has been shown to involve electron transfer, and the potency of xenon as a general anesthetic exhibits isotopic dependence. We...

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Main Authors: Jordan Smith, Hadi Zadeh Haghighi, Dennis Salahub, Christoph Simon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85673-w