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Different Isotopes of Xenon as Anesthetics
Xenon, an inert gas, can induce anesthesia when inhaled, with different isotopes having varying anesthetic potency. Studies showed that the different isotopes of xenon can cause mice to lose consciousness at different partial pressures, leading to the plan of repeating the experiment with a statistically solid approach using a thousand organoids at UCSB and five different isotopes of xenon to explore their varying effects as anesthetics.