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The Meyer-Overton correlation for anaesthetics. A nonspecific mechanism of general anaesthetic action was first proposed by Emil Harless and Ernst von Bibra in 1847. [9] They suggested that general anaesthetics may act by dissolving in the fatty fraction of brain cells and removing fatty constituents from them, thus changing activity of brain cells and inducing anaesthesia.
Procaine is a local anesthetic drug of the amino ester group. It is most commonly used in dental procedures to numb the area around a tooth [1] and is also used to reduce the pain of intramuscular injection of penicillin. Owing to the ubiquity of the trade name Novocain or Novocaine, in some regions, procaine is referred to generically as ...
Many local anesthetics fall into two general chemical classes, amino esters (top) and amino amides (bottom). A local anesthetic (LA) is a medication that causes absence of all sensation (including pain) in a specific body part without loss of consciousness, [1] providing local anesthesia, as opposed to a general anesthetic, which eliminates all sensation in the entire body and causes ...
The Lateral Pressure Profile theory suggests that anesthetic agents partition into the lipid bilayer, increasing the horizontal pressure on proteins imbedded in the membrane. The added pressure causes a conformational change in protein structure , forcing the neuronal channel into an open or closed state (e.g., hyperpolarization ) that ...
procaine: Novocain, borocaine (procaine borate), ethocaine 1904 (Alfred Einhorn) 1905 (Heinrich Braun) procainamide: proparacaine: proxymetacaine propoxycaine [16] Pyrrocaine [17] quinisocaine dimethisoquin [18] ropivacaine: Naropin 1957 (Ekenstam) 1997 trimecaine: Mesdicain, Mesocain, Mesokain tetracaine: amethocaine, Dicaine, Pontocaine
Diethylethanolamine reacts with 4-aminobenzoic acid to make procaine. DEAE is a precursor for DEAE-cellulose resin, which is commonly used in ion exchange chromatography. it can decrease the surface tension of water when the temperature is increased. [3] Solutions of DEAE absorb carbon dioxide (CO 2).
Alfred Einhorn (27 February 1856 – 21 March 1917) was a German chemist most notable for first synthesizing procaine in 1905 which he patented under the name Novocain. [2] Until that time the primary anesthetic in use was cocaine , however its undesirable side effects (including toxicity and addiction ) led scientists to seek out newer ...
MAC is used to compare the strengths, or potency, of anaesthetic vapours. [1] The concept of MAC was first introduced in 1965. [2] MAC actually is a median value, not a minimum as term implies. The original paper proposed MAC as the minimal alveolar concentration, [3] which was shortly thereafter revised to minimum alveolar concentration. [4]