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One of the greatest unresolved mysteries in medicine relates to the molecular and neuronal mechanisms through which general anesthetics abolish perception. A new study in mice with mutations affecting mitochondrial complex 1 suggests that anesthetic-disruption of cellular energetics impairs endocytosis to alter synaptic function.
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