Isoflurane with morphine is a suitable anaesthetic regimen for embryo transfer in the production of transgenic rats

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 38-43

  Smith, Jennifer C ^a   Corbin, Timothy J ^a   McCabe, James G ^a   Bolon, Brad ^a,b  

^a AMGEN INC   (United States)

^b GEMpath Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Isoflurane; Morphine; Pregnancy rates; Rat; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; MORPHINE; XYLAZINE;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MICROINJECTION; NEWBORN; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSGENIC RAT;

ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; MALE; MORPHINE; PREGNANCY; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; XYLAZINE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1642545092     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/00236770460734371     Document Type: Article

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