Survival anesthetic and injection procedures for neonatal opossums

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 41-43

  Wang, Zhiqiang ^a   Vandeberg, John L ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HALOTHANE; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; INJECTION; MARSUPIAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; TUBE;

ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MODELS, ANIMAL; OPOSSUMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALIA; DIDELPHIDAE; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONODELPHIS; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA;

EID: 0141783856     PISSN: 10600558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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