Genomic discordance between monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia |
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Authors: | T Tsujita N Niikawa H Yamashita A Imamura A Hamada Y Nakane Y Okazaki |
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Affiliation: | The Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, New Jersey 07039, USA. |
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Abstract: | Based on volume-flow relationships, CNS agents that are highly lipid soluble (log octanol-water partition coefficient > 2) are expected to have equilibration half-times (T1/2 kE0) that are proportional to brain solubility. Propofol, the most lipophilic anaesthetic in clinical use, has T1/2 kE0 values of 1.7 and 2.9 min in rats and humans, respectively, compared with an expected value of at least 8 min. As a first step in exploring this discrepancy between observed and predicted values, we determined the steady state brain:plasma and brain:blood partition coefficients in rats after a 4-h infusion of propofol. Brain:plasma and brain:blood partition coefficients were 8.2 (SD 1.6) and 3.0 (0.5), respectively. T1/2 kE0 predictions based on brain: blood partitioning in rats are more in agreement with the observed equilibration half-time, suggesting that drug bound to the formed elements of blood participates in the uptake and transfer of propofol to its effect site. |
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