Response of wild subantarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus tropicalis) females to ketamine and tiletamine-zolazepam anesthesia

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 846-850

  Dabin, Willy ^a   Beauplet, Gwénaël ^b   Guinet, Christophe ^b  

^a Ctr Rech sur les Mammiferes Marins   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Arctocephalus tropicalis; Cyclohexamines; Ketamine; Subantarctic fur seal; Tiletamine xolazepam mixture

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARCTOCEPHALUS; ARCTOCEPHALUS TROPICALIS; PHOCIDAE;

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; KETAMINE; TILETAMINE; ZOLAZEPAM;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTARCTICA; APNEA; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; IMMOBILIZATION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEAL; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TREMOR;

ANESTHETICS, COMBINED; ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; APNEA; BENZODIAZEPINES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FUR SEALS; IMMOBILIZATION; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; KETAMINE; RESPIRATION; TILETAMINE; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TREMOR; ZOLAZEPAM;

EID: 0038005502     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-38.4.846     Document Type: Article

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