Carbon dioxide-induced anesthesia has no effect on brain biogenic amine concentrations in mice

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 316-318

  Jones, Dorothy Mae ^a   Arters, Jill ^a   Berger Sweeney, Joanne ^a  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC AMINE; BRAIN AMINE; CARBON DIOXIDE;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CATECHOLAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; STRESS;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CARBON DIOXIDE; DOPAMINE; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NOREPINEPHRINE; SEROTONIN; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

EID: 0032982227     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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