Pharmacokinetics and tissue residues of Telazol® in free-ranging polar bears

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 653-662

  Semple, Hugh A ^a   Gorecki, Dennis K J ^a   Farley, Sean D ^b   Ramsay, Malcolm A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Immobilization; Pharmacokinetics; Polar bear; Telazol ; Tiletamine; Tissue residues; Ursus maritimus; Zolazepam

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; DRUG RESIDUE; TELAZOL; TILETAMINE; ZOLAZEPAM;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGE DETERMINATION; AMERICAN INDIAN; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BEAR; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; CANADA; CHEMISTRY; DRUG COMBINATION; HALF LIFE TIME; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; KIDNEY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGE DETERMINATION BY TEETH; ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; ANIMALS; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BENZODIAZEPINES; BODY WEIGHT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG RESIDUES; HALF-LIFE; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; KIDNEY; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NUNAVUT; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TILETAMINE; URSIDAE; ZOLAZEPAM;

EID: 0034303126     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-36.4.653     Document Type: Article

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