Local anesthesia saves lives of experimental rats and time and money of researchers in composite tissue allotransplantation [31]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1689-1691

  Ulusal, Betul Gozel ^a   Ulusal, Ali Engin ^a   Hung, Li Man ^a   Wei, Fu Chan ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LIDOCAINE; PENTOBARBITAL; XYLAZINE;

BLOOD SAMPLING; COMPOSITE GRAFT; COST CONTROL; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; VEIN PUNCTURE;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMALS; BIOPSY; COST CONTROL; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; LIDOCAINE; PHLEBOTOMY; RATS; RESEARCH; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 14944386993     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000141485.83476.89     Document Type: Letter

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