Evaluation of two combinations of Domitor, Zoletil 100, and Euthatal to obtain long-term nonrecovery anesthesia in Sprague-Dawley rats

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 256-264

  Ferrari, Livia ^a   Turrini, Giuliano ^a   Rostello, Chiara ^a   Guidi, Alessia ^a   Casartelli, Alessandro ^a   Piaia, Alessandro ^a   Sartori, Matteo ^b  

^a GSK   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDETOMIDINE; PENTOBARBITAL; TELAZOL; ANESTHETIC AGENT; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; TILETAMINE; ZOLAZEPAM;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMATOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; EVALUATION; GERMFREE ANIMAL; IMMOBILIZATION; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER; LIVER CELL; LONGEVITY; LUNG; PATHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; ANIMALS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BODY TEMPERATURE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG COMBINATIONS; HEPATOCYTES; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; IMMOBILIZATION; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; LIVER; LONGEVITY; LUNG; MALE; MEDETOMIDINE; PENTOBARBITAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESPIRATION; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; TILETAMINE; ZOLAZEPAM;

EID: 24344502747     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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