Use of injectable potassium chloride for euthanasia of American lobsters (Homarus americanus)

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 545-550

  Battison, A ^a   MacMillan, R ^a   MacKenzie, A ^a   Rose, P ^a   Cawthorn, R ^a   Horney, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL SWELLING; CELL VACUOLE; DEATH; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EUTHANASIA; HEART ARREST; HEART RATE; HISTOLOGY; LOBSTER; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; RELIABILITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VENTRAL ROOT;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ANIMALS; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART RATE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEPHROPIDAE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033739951     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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