Effect of medetomidine and its antagonism with atipamezole on stress-related hormones, metabolites, physiologic responses, sedation, and mechanical threshold in goats

Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 147-157

  Carroll, Gwendolyn L ^a   Hartsfield, Sandee M ^a   Champney, Thomas H ^b   Geller, Sue C ^a   Martinez, Elizabeth A ^a   Haley, Erica L ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Atipamezole; Goats; Mechanical threshold; Medetomidine; Sedation; Stress response

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS;

ADRENALIN; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ATIPAMEZOLE; HYDROCORTISONE; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; MEDETOMIDINE; NORADRENALIN;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INTERACTION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GOAT; HEART RATE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; DRUG INTERACTIONS; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; GOATS; HEART RATE; HYDROCORTISONE; IMIDAZOLES; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MEDETOMIDINE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION;

EID: 20844462386     PISSN: 14672987     EISSN: 14672995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2995.2005.00187.x     Document Type: Article

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