Neonatal Anesthesia for Studies of Hamster Parental Behavior when Infanticidal Aggression Is a Possibility

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 202-208

  Vella, Emily T ^a   Evans, Christopher C D ^a   Williams, Siân ^a   Wynne Edwards, Katherine E ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; XYLAZINE;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAMSTER; INFANTICIDE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; REFLEX; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; VOCALIZATION;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CANNIBALISM; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; MALE; PHODOPUS; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 2342635878     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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