Role Faculty Category Clinical Education M.D., 1988 - School of Medicine, Harvard UniversityResidency, - School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Publications Molecular mechanisms of drug action: an emerging view. Sonner JM, Cantor RS . Annual review of biophysics . Feb 28, 2013 3-Hydroxybutyric acid interacts with lipid monolayers at concentrations that impair consciousness. Hsu TT, Leiske DL, Rosenfeld L, Sonner JM, Fuller GG . Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids . Feb 1, 2013 Gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptor β3 subunit forebrain-specific knockout mice are resistant to the amnestic effect of isoflurane. Rau V, Oh I, Liao M, Bodarky C, Fanselow MS, Homanics GE, Sonner JM, Eger EI . Anesthesia and analgesia . Aug 3, 2011 Functional prokaryotic-eukaryotic chimera from the pentameric ligand-gated ion channel family. Duret G, Van Renterghem C, Weng Y, Prevost M, Moraga-Cid G, Huon C, Sonner JM, Corringer PJ . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . Jul 5, 2011 X-ray structures of general anaesthetics bound to a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel. Nury H, Van Renterghem C, Weng Y, Tran A, Baaden M, Dufresne V, Changeux JP, Sonner JM, Delarue M, Corringer PJ . Nature . Jan 20, 2011 Conserved role of unc-79 in ethanol responses in lightweight mutant mice. Speca DJ, Chihara D, Ashique AM, Bowers MS, Pierce-Shimomura JT, Lee J, Rabbee N, Speed TP, Gularte RJ, Chitwood J, Medrano JF, Liao M, Sonner JM, Eger EI, Peterson AS, McIntire SL . PLoS genetics . Aug 12, 2010 Gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptor alpha 4 subunit knockout mice are resistant to the amnestic effect of isoflurane. Rau V, Iyer SV, Oh I, Chandra D, Harrison N, Eger EI, Fanselow MS, Homanics GE, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Dec 1, 2009 Anesthetic sensitivity of the Gloeobacter violaceus proton-gated ion channel. Weng Y, Yang L, Corringer PJ, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Nov 21, 2009 Isovaleric, methylmalonic, and propionic acid decrease anesthetic EC50 in tadpoles, modulate glycine receptor function, and interact with the lipid 1,2-dipalmitoyl-Sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine. Weng Y, Hsu TT, Zhao J, Nishimura S, Fuller GG, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . May 1, 2009 Tolerance to isoflurane does not occur in developing Xenopus laevis tadpoles. Milutinovic PS, Zhao J, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Jan 1, 2009 A hypothesis on the origin and evolution of the response to inhaled anesthetics. Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Sep 1, 2008 Anesthetic-like modulation of receptor function by surfactants: a test of the interfacial theory of anesthesia. Yang L, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Sep 1, 2008 Is a new paradigm needed to explain how inhaled anesthetics produce immobility? Eger EI, Raines DE, Shafer SL, Hemmings HC, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Sep 1, 2008 Additivity versus synergy: a theoretical analysis of implications for anesthetic mechanisms. Shafer SL, Hendrickx JF, Flood P, Sonner J, Eger EI . Anesthesia and analgesia . Aug 1, 2008 Inhaled anesthetics do not combine to produce synergistic effects regarding minimum alveolar anesthetic concentration in rats. Eger EI, Tang M, Liao M, Laster MJ, Solt K, Flood P, Jenkins A, Raines D, Hendrickx JF, Shafer SL, Yasumasa T, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Aug 1, 2008 Is synergy the rule? A review of anesthetic interactions producing hypnosis and immobility. Hendrickx JF, Eger EI, Sonner JM, Shafer SL . Anesthesia and analgesia . Aug 1, 2008 Knockout of the gene encoding the K(2P) channel KCNK7 does not alter volatile anesthetic sensitivity. Yost CS, Oh I, Eger EI, Sonner JM . Behavioural brain research . May 20, 2008 Intrathecal glycine significantly decreases the minimum alveolar concentration of isoflurane in rats. Zhao J, Zhang Y, Eger EI, Sonner J . Chinese medical sciences journal = Chung-kuo i hsueh k'o hsueh tsa chih . Mar 1, 2008 The anesthetic-like effects of diverse compounds on wild-type and mutant gamma-aminobutyric acid type A and glycine receptors. Yang L, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Mar 1, 2008 Alterations in spinal, but not cerebral, cerebrospinal fluid Na+ concentrations affect the isoflurane minimum alveolar concentration in rats. Laster MJ, Zhang Y, Eger EI, Shnayderman D, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Sep 1, 2007 Anesthetic properties of the ketone bodies beta-hydroxybutyric acid and acetone. Yang L, Zhao J, Milutinovic PS, Brosnan RJ, Eger EI, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Sep 1, 2007 Anesthetic-like modulation of a gamma-aminobutyric acid type A, strychnine-sensitive glycine, and N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors by coreleased neurotransmitters. Milutinovic PS, Yang L, Cantor RS, Eger EI, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Aug 1, 2007 Mouse chromosome 7 harbors a quantitative trait locus for isoflurane minimum alveolar concentration. Cascio M, Xing Y, Gong D, Popovich J, Eger EI, Sen S, Peltz G, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Aug 1, 2007 The plasticizer di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate modulates gamma-aminobutyric acid type A and glycine receptor function. Yang L, Milutinovic PS, Brosnan RJ, Eger EI, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Aug 1, 2007 Anesthetic properties of carbon dioxide in the rat. Brosnan RJ, Eger EI, Laster MJ, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Jul 1, 2007 Ethnicity can affect anesthetic requirement. Sonner JM . Anesthesiology . Jul 1, 2007 Ammonia has anesthetic properties. Brosnan RJ, Yang L, Milutinovic PS, Zhao J, Laster MJ, Eger EI, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Jun 1, 2007 Lidocaine, MK-801, and MAC. Zhang Y, Laster MJ, Eger EI, Sharma M, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . May 1, 2007 Blockade of acetylcholine receptors does not change the dose of etomidate required to produce immobility in rats. Zhang Y, Laster MJ, Eger EI, Sharma M, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Apr 1, 2007 Determination of the EC50 amnesic concentration of etomidate and its diffusion profile in brain tissue: implications for in vitro studies. Benkwitz C, Liao M, Laster MJ, Sonner JM, Eger EI, Pearce RA . Anesthesiology . Jan 1, 2007 Effect of isoflurane and other potent inhaled anesthetics on minimum alveolar concentration, learning, and the righting reflex in mice engineered to express alpha1 gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptors unresponsive to isoflurane. Sonner JM, Werner DF, Elsen FP, Xing Y, Liao M, Harris RA, Harrison NL, Fanselow MS, Eger EI, Homanics GE . Anesthesiology . Jan 1, 2007 Do dopamine receptors mediate part of MAC? Tanifuji Y, Zhang Y, Liao M, Eger EI, Laster MJ, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Nov 1, 2006 Chirality in anesthesia I: minimum alveolar concentration of secondary alcohol enantiomers. Won A, Oh I, Laster MJ, Popovich J, Eger EI, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Jul 1, 2006 Chirality in anesthesia II: stereoselective modulation of ion channel function by secondary alcohol enantiomers. Brosnan R, Gong D, Cotten J, Keshavaprasad B, Yost CS, Eger EI, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Jul 1, 2006 Contrasting roles of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor in the production of immobilization by conventional and aromatic anesthetics. Eger EI, Liao M, Laster MJ, Won A, Popovich J, Raines DE, Solt K, Dutton RC, Cobos FV, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . May 1, 2006 Do N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors mediate the capacity of inhaled anesthetics to suppress the temporal summation that contributes to minimum alveolar concentration? Dutton RC, Laster MJ, Xing Y, Sonner JM, Raines DE, Solt K, Eger EI . Anesthesia and analgesia . May 1, 2006 Naloxone does not increase the minimum alveolar anesthetic concentration of sevoflurane in mice. Liao M, Laster MJ, Eger EI, Tang M, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . May 1, 2006 The minimum alveolar anesthetic concentration of 2-, 3-, and 4-alcohols and ketones in rats: relevance to anesthetic mechanisms. Won A, Oh I, Liao M, Sonner JM, Harris RA, Laster MJ, Brosnan R, Trudell JR, Eger EI . Anesthesia and analgesia . May 1, 2006 Anaesthesia defined (gentlemen, this is no humbug). Eger EI, Sonner JM . Best practice & research. Clinical anaesthesiology . Mar 1, 2006 Hypothermia decreases ethanol MAC in rats. Won A, Oh I, Brosnan R, Eger EI, Sonner JM . Journal of anesthesia . Jan 1, 2006 Beta3-containing gamma-aminobutyric acidA receptors are not major targets for the amnesic and immobilizing actions of isoflurane. Liao M, Sonner JM, Jurd R, Rudolph U, Borghese CM, Harris RA, Laster MJ, Eger EI . Anesthesia and analgesia . Aug 1, 2005 R (+) etomidate and the photoactivable R (+) azietomidate have comparable anesthetic activity in wild-type mice and comparably decreased activity in mice with a N265M point mutation in the gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor beta3 subunit. Liao M, Sonner JM, Husain SS, Miller KW, Jurd R, Rudolph U, Eger EI . Anesthesia and analgesia . Jul 1, 2005 The effect of three inhaled anesthetics in mice harboring mutations in the GluR6 (kainate) receptor gene. Sonner JM, Vissel B, Royle G, Maurer A, Gong D, Baron NV, Harrison N, Fanselow M, Eger EI . Anesthesia and analgesia . Jul 1, 2005 Administration of epinephrine does not increase learning of fear to tone in rats anesthetized with isoflurane or desflurane. Sonner JM, Xing Y, Zhang Y, Maurer A, Fanselow MS, Dutton RC, Eger EI . Anesthesia and analgesia . May 1, 2005 Alpha 1 subunit-containing GABA type A receptors in forebrain contribute to the effect of inhaled anesthetics on conditioned fear. Sonner JM, Cascio M, Xing Y, Fanselow MS, Kralic JE, Morrow AL, Korpi ER, Hardy S, Sloat B, Eger EI, Homanics GE . Molecular pharmacology . Apr 15, 2005 The effect of meperidine on thermoregulation in mice: involvement of alpha2-adrenoceptors. Paris A, Ohlendorf C, Marquardt M, Bein B, Sonner JM, Scholz J, Tonner PH . Anesthesia and analgesia . Jan 1, 2005 Thiopental produces immobility primarily by supraspinal actions in rats. Stabernack C, Zhang Y, Sonner JM, Laster M, Eger EI . Anesthesia and analgesia . Jan 1, 2005 Mice with a melanocortin 1 receptor mutation have a slightly greater minimum alveolar concentration than control mice. Xing Y, Sonner JM, Eger EI, Cascio M, Sessler DI . Anesthesiology . Aug 1, 2004 Gamma-aminobutyric acidA receptors do not mediate the immobility produced by isoflurane. Zhang Y, Sonner JM, Eger EI, Stabernack CR, Laster MJ, Raines DE, Harris RA . Anesthesia and analgesia . Jul 1, 2004 Women appear to have the same minimum alveolar concentration as men: a retrospective study. Eger EI, Laster MJ, Gregory GA, Katoh T, Sonner JM . Anesthesiology . Nov 1, 2003 Inhaled anesthetics and immobility: mechanisms, mysteries, and minimum alveolar anesthetic concentration. Sonner JM, Antognini JF, Dutton RC, Flood P, Gray AT, Harris RA, Homanics GE, Kendig J, Orser B, Raines DE, Trudell J, Vissel B, Eger EI . Anesthesia and analgesia . Sep 1, 2003 Blockade of 5-HT2A receptors may mediate or modulate part of the immobility produced by inhaled anesthetics. Zhang Y, Laster MJ, Eger EI, Stabernack CR, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Aug 1, 2003 Alpha-2 adrenoreceptors probably do not mediate the immobility produced by inhaled anesthetics. Eger EI, Xing Y, Laster MJ, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Jun 1, 2003 Temporal summation governs part of the minimum alveolar concentration of isoflurane anesthesia. Dutton RC, Zhang Y, Stabernack CR, Laster MJ, Sonner JM, Eger EI . Anesthesiology . Jun 1, 2003 Halothane and isoflurane have additive minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) effects in rats. Eger EI, Xing Y, Laster M, Sonner J, Antognini JF, Carstens E . Anesthesia and analgesia . May 1, 2003 Isoflurane antagonizes the capacity of flurothyl or 1,2-dichlorohexafluorocyclobutane to impair fear conditioning to context and tone. Eger EI, Xing Y, Pearce R, Shafer S, Laster MJ, Zhang Y, Fanselow MS, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Apr 1, 2003 GABA(A) receptor blockade antagonizes the immobilizing action of propofol but not ketamine or isoflurane in a dose-related manner. Bovill JG, Sonner JM, Zhang Y, Stabernack C, Abaigar W, Xing Y, Laster MJ . Anesthesia and analgesia . Mar 1, 2003 Glycine receptors mediate part of the immobility produced by inhaled anesthetics. Zhang Y, Laster MJ, Hara K, Harris RA, Eger EI, Stabernack CR, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Jan 1, 2003 Spinal N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors may contribute to the immobilizing action of isoflurane. Stabernack C, Sonner JM, Laster M, Zhang Y, Xing Y, Sharma M, Eger EI . Anesthesia and analgesia . Jan 1, 2003 Heteromeric nicotinic inhibition by isoflurane does not mediate MAC or loss of righting reflex. Flood P, Sonner JM, Gong D, Coates KM . Anesthesiology . Oct 1, 2002 Issues in the design and interpretation of minimum alveolar anesthetic concentration (MAC) studies. Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Sep 1, 2002 Isoflurane hyperalgesia is modulated by nicotinic inhibition. Flood P, Sonner JM, Gong D, Coates KM . Anesthesiology . Jul 1, 2002 Acetylcholine receptors do not mediate isoflurane's actions on spinal cord in vitro. Wong SM, Sonner JM, Kendig JJ . Anesthesia and analgesia . Jun 1, 2002 Acetylcholine receptors do not mediate the immobilization produced by inhaled anesthetics. Eger EI, Zhang Y, Laster M, Flood P, Kendig JJ, Sonner JM . Anesthesia and analgesia . Jun 1, 2002 Do sevoflurane and desflurane differ in upper airway reactivity? Sonner J, Fisher DM . Anesthesiology . May 1, 2002 Isoflurane causes anterograde but not retrograde amnesia for pavlovian fear conditioning. Dutton RC, Maurer AJ, Sonner JM, Fanselow MS, Laster MJ, Eger EI . Anesthesiology . May 1, 2002 Short-term memory resists the depressant effect of the nonimmobilizer 1-2-dichlorohexafluorocyclobutane (2N) more than long-term memory. Dutton RC, Maurer AJ, Sonner JM, Fanselow MS, Laster MJ, Eger EI . Anesthesia and analgesia . Mar 1, 2002
