Environmental effects on muonium adducts of lidocaine using avoided level crossing muon spin resonance

Lidocaine is a local anaesthetic, identified by the World Health Organisation as an essential medicine. In order to reach its site of action, lidocaine first has to pass from a watery environment outside a cell, through at least one cell membrane, the inside of which is oily. Water and oil are known not to mix, yet lidocaine traverses both! Although much is known about the interaction of lidocaine with membranes, typically this has been done with bulky labels that may affect the membrane. Muons, a type of subatomic particle, are able to interact with substances with certain structural features. Muons themselves weigh around 1/9 that of a proton and thus can act as ultrasensitive labels while not perturbing the system. This proposal explores how the signal generated by the interaction of lidocaine with muons is affected by its environment, including the effect of pH and solvent polarity.

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该数据集通过避免能级交叉μ子自旋共振技术，研究利多卡因（一种局部麻醉药）的μ子加合物在不同环境条件（如pH和溶剂极性）下的行为，使用μ子作为超灵敏标签以最小化系统扰动。数据来自ISIS中子与μ子源的实验（编号RB2010608），以RAW/Nexus格式发布，适用于分析环境因素对药物跨膜传输机制的影响。