Ketamine/xylazine anesthesia for radiologic imaging of neurologically impaired rats: Dose response, respiratory depression, and management of complications

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 652-655

  Dittmar, Michael S ^a   Fehm, Nando P ^a   Vatankhah, Bijan ^a   Horn, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; XYLAZINE; ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APNEA; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; LUNG TOXICITY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RAT; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DISEASE MODEL; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SAFETY; WISTAR RAT;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; KETAMINE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; SAFETY; XYLAZINE;

EID: 20044377284     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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