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  • Title: The partial molar volumes of anesthetics in lipid bilayers.
    Author: Kita Y, Bennett LJ, Miller KW.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1981 Sep 21; 647(1):130-9. PubMed ID: 6895321.
    Abstract:
    The excess volumes of mixing of benzyl alcohol, halothane, and methoxyflurane in water and in suspensions of several lipid bilayers have been determined at 25 degrees C using a novel excess volume dilatometer. The excess volumes of mixing in water were all found to be negative, whereas in lipid suspensions they were all more positive than those in water alone. From known partition coefficients the partial molar volumes of these three solutes in the lipid bilayers were calculated. These values were all close to the molar volumes of the pure anesthetics, as was a value determined for halothane in olive oil. Halothane was studied in dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine below its phase transition, and was found to exhibit a much larger excess volume than in any other system we studied. The potency of these three anesthetics was determined in tadpoles. It was calculated that at equi-anesthetic doses these three agents caused an expansion in egg lecithin/cholesterol (2:1) bilayers of 0.21 +/- 0.015%. This result is consistent with the hypothesis that general anesthetics act by expanding membranes.
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