Mutations That Affect Ion Channels Change the Sensitivity ofDrosophila Melanogasterto Volatile Anesthetics
作者:
LeibovitchB. A.,
CampbellD. B.,
KrishnanK. S.,
NashH. A.,
期刊:
Journal of Neurogenetics
(Taylor Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 10,
issue 1
页码: 1-13
ISSN:0167-7063
年代: 1995
DOI:10.3109/01677069509083455
出版商: Taylor&Francis
关键词: general anesthesia;inebriometer;halothane;Shaker;paralytic;slowpoke;harmutants
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
We have quantitated the response ofD. melanogasterto general anesthetics with a device, the inebriometer, that assays the fly's geotactic and postural behavior. When alleles of several loci that encode or regulate sub-units of ion channels were compared with control stocks, several ion channel mutants clearly increased the anesthetic sensitivity ofDrosophila.The effects were specific in that: a) for several alleles, genetic tests indicated that the anesthesia phenotype was due to the ion channel mutation and not to extraneous genetic differences between the stocks; b) a given ion channel mutation often affected the response to one anesthetic but not another; and c) the behavior of decapitated flies in the inebriometer indicated that the anesthetic phenotype of several mutants did not merely reflect a global change in the fly's physiology. These results provide support for the idea that ion channels are on the pathway(s) influenced by anesthetics and that different anesthetics use different pathways. They also provide perspective on the behavior of previously isolated mutations (har) that decrease the sensitivity ofDrosophilato anesthetics in the inebriometer.
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