Susceptibility of rats to corneal lesions after injectable anesthesia

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 175-182

  Turner, Patricia V ^a,b   Albassam, Mudher A ^a  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENFLURANE; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; XYLAZINE; YOHIMBINE; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA INJURY; CORNEA OPACITY; CORNEA ULCER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MINERALIZATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NONHUMAN; RAT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; GERMFREE ANIMAL; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHESIA; LABORATORY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RAT STRAIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANESTHESIA, INTRAVENOUS; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; ANIMALS; CORNEAL DISEASES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

EID: 23444456955     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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