Combined Effects of Dissociable and Undissociable Local Anesthetics Upon ATP-induced Firefly Bioluminescence

Overview

Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Specialty Science

Date 1976 Jun 1

PMID 1064860

Citations 1

Authors

H Kamaya

I Ueda

H EYRING

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Abstract

Combined effects of two drugs present simultaneously are usually expressed as summation, synergism or potentiation, and antagonism. When the sum of the effects of each drug present separately equals the combined effect of the two drugs present simultaneously, the action is called additive or summation. However, the expected value of the sum of each effect of drugs present alone has not been well defined. In this report, the thearetical value of the expected sum of each effect of two inhibitors is given and a graphical method is presented to visualize summation, synergism, and antagonism. The inhibitory effects of a dissociable local anesthetic, tetracaine, and an undissociable local anesthetic, benzyl alcohol, upon a soluble firefly luminescent system were analyzed according to the above theory. The results clearly indicate that the action of these two classes of local anesthetics is pure additive or summation.

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