Pharmacokinetics of intravenously administered ketamine in southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Pharmacology Toxicology and Endocrinology

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 279-284

  Woods, Rupert ^a   McLean, Stuart ^a   Burton, Harry R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Intravenous dosage; Ketamine; Pharmacokinetics; Physiological state; Southern elephant seals; Subantarctic; Wild animals

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE;

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG ELIMINATION; FEMALE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOKINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAL; SEDATION;

ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; FEMALE; HALF-LIFE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KETAMINE; SEALS, EARLESS;

EID: 0032783439     PISSN: 07428413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0742-8413(99)00035-3     Document Type: Article

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