Hans Horst Meyer and the lipoid theory of narcosis.

Abstract:

:This year marks the 90th anniversary of the publication of Hans Horst Meyer's classic paper in which he proposed that the ability of a substance to produce narcosis or anesthesia is governed by its partition coefficient. In this article, Robert Lipnick describes the experiments carried out by Meyer and his colleagues which disproved the earlier theories that potency was determined by the presence of particular functional groups or their metabolites or by water or fat solubility, and which led to the formulation of the lipoid theory of narcosis.

journal_name

Trends Pharmacol Sci

authors

Lipnick RL

doi

10.1016/0165-6147(89)90025-4

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1989-07-01 00:00:00

pages

265-9

issue

7

eissn

0165-6147

issn

1873-3735

pii

0165-6147(89)90025-4

journal_volume

10

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