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SUMMARY:RALPH LYDIC, PhD Professor Department of Anesthesiology U of M Medical School Ann Arbor
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 In 2000 the editors of the New England Journal 
 of Medicine listed the development of safe and 
 reliable anesthesia as one of the major medical 
 advances in the past thousand years. Continuing 
 progress in basic and clinical pharmacology 
 has contributed to efforts to understand 
 the cellular and molecular mechanisms of 
 anesthesia. For no molecule, however, do we understand 
 the mechanisms that cause the loss 
 of wakefulness and the onset of an anesthetic 
 state. It has become clear that molecular actions 
 at the lipid bilayer and/or on cell surface 
 proteins can not explain the generation 
 of anesthetic states. An alternative, heuristic 
 model is that brain regions which evolved 
 to generate naturally occurring states of sleep 
 and wakefulness are preferentially involved 
 in generating the physiological and behavioral 
 traits that comprise states of anesthesia. 
 This talk will highlight recent neurochemical 
 evidence showing that brain regions and neurotransmitters 
 know to regulate sleep and wakefulness 
 are significantly altered by anesthetics.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Dept of Pharmacology & Toxicology\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://phmtox.msu.edu\n
 Contact name: Diane Hummel\n
 Contact phone: 353-9616\n
 Contact email: phm@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://phmtox.msu.edu/events/pdf/LYDIC--Flyer\n
LOCATION:B448-49 Life Sciences Building
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