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Pressure Reversal of Anaesthesia

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The application of high hydrostatic pressure will remove, at least partially, the effects of general anaesthetics in both newts and mice. This feature seems to be common to all general anaesthetics and a simple model could explain this antagonism.

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  1. Department of Pharmacology and Physical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford

    M. J. LEVER, K. W. MILLER, W. D. M. PATON & E. B. SMITH

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LEVER, M., MILLER, K., PATON, W. et al. Pressure Reversal of Anaesthesia. Nature 231, 368–371 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/231368a0

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