Medetomidine-Ketamine Anesthesia in Red-Eared Slider Turtles (Trachemys scripta elegans)

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 8-11

  Greer, Leah L ^a,b,c   Jenne, Keith J ^c   Diggs, Helen E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b Department of Comparative Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ATIPAMEZOLE; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; KETAMINE; MEDETOMIDINE;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEART RATE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TURTLE;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HEART RATE; IMIDAZOLES; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; KETAMINE; MEDETOMIDINE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TURTLES;

EID: 0345878321     PISSN: 10600558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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