Tribromoethanol-medetomidine combination provides a safe and reversible anesthetic effect in Sprague-Dawley rats

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 7-10

  Gopalan, Chaya ^a   Hegade, Gowri M ^a   Bay, Tammi N ^a   Brown, Shaun R ^a   Talcott, Michael R ^b  

^a St Louis Community College   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ATIPAMEZOLE; BROMETHOL; MEDETOMIDINE; T 48402; XYLAZINE; ALCOHOL; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SAFETY; MALE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER; SAFETY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, COMBINED; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; IMIDAZOLES; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LIVER; MALE; MEDETOMIDINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SAFETY;

EID: 20444444321     PISSN: 10600558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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