Evaluation of the Analgesic Effects of Butorphanol Tartrate, Xylazine Hydrochloride, and Flunixin Meglumine in Leopard Frogs (Rana pipiens)

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 54-56

  Terril Robb, Lizabeth A ^a   Suckow, Mark A ^a   Grigdesby, Cynthia F ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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