Ultrasonographic Pregnancy Detection and Inhalation Anesthesia in the Gray Short-Tailed Opossum (Monodelphis domestica)

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 280-282

  Miles, Kristina G ^a   Sonea, Ioana M ^a   Jackson, Larry L ^a   Riedesel, Elizabeth A ^a   Riedesel, Dean H ^a   Jacobson, Carol D ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; ISOVET; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; ANIMALS; COPULATION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; ISOFLURANE; MALE; OPOSSUMS; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0031403649     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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