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Anesthetic Pharmacology of the Mint Extracts L-Carvone and Methyl Salicylate

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PHARMACOLOGY
卷 107, 期 3-4, 页码 167-178

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KARGER
DOI: 10.1159/000520762

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Anesthesia; Euthanasia; gamma-Amino butyric acid type; N-Methyl-D-aspartate; Voltage-gated sodium channel

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  1. Department of Surgical and Radiological Sciences at the University of California, Davis

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The study found that mint extracts L-carvone and methyl salicylate can modulate the activity of ion channels and induce anesthesia in rats.
Introduction: Hydrocarbons with sufficient water solubility allosterically modulate anesthetic-sensitive ion channels. Mint extracts L-carvone and methyl salicylate water solubility exceeds modulation cutoff values for gamma-amino butyric acid type A (GABA(A)) receptors, N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, and type-2 voltage-gated sodium (Na(v)1.2) channels. We hypothesized that mint extracts modulate these channels at concentrations that anesthetize rats. Methods: Channels were expressed separately in frog oocytes and studied using 2-electrode voltage clamp techniques at drug concentrations up to 10 mM. Normalized current effects were fit to Hill equations. Mint compounds were formulated in a lipid emulsion and administered IV to rats. When unresponsive to the tail clamp, rats were exsanguinated, and plasma drug concentrations were measured. Results: Both mint compounds caused concentration-dependent inhibition of all channels except for methyl salicylate which inhibited GABA(A) receptors at low concentrations and potentiated at high concentrations. Plasma drug concentrations in anesthetized rats were 7.9 mM for L-carvone and 2.7 mM for methyl salicylate. This corresponded to >= 53% NMDA receptor inhibition and >= 78% Na(v)1.2 channel inhibition by both compounds and 30% potentiation of GABA(A) receptors by methyl salicylate. Conclusion: L-Carvone and methyl salicylate allosterically modulate cell receptor targets important to molecular actions of conventional anesthetics at concentrations that also induce general anesthesia in rats. (c) 2022 The Author(s) Published by S. Karger AG, Basel

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