Ketamine-xylazine-acepromazine anesthesia and postoperative recovery in rats

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 13-20

  Welberg, Leonie A M ^a   Kinkead, Becky ^a   Thrivikraman, K V ^a   Huerkamp, Michael J ^a   Nemeroff, Charles B ^a   Plotsky, Paul M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACEPROMAZINE; ACEPROMAZINE MALEATE; KETAMINE; KETOROLAC; NOVAPLUS; XYLAZINE;

ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DRUG EFFECT; FLUID INTAKE; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROTOMY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RAT; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

ACEPROMAZINE; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS, COMBINED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; DRINKING; KETAMINE; KETOROLAC; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHT LOSS; XYLAZINE;

EID: 33744801669     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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