Isoflurane is an effective alternative to ketamine/xylazine/acepromazine as an anesthetic agent for the mouse electroretinogram

Documenta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 187-201

  Woodward, William R ^a   Choi, Dongseok ^b   Grose, Jared ^c   Malmin, Bojan ^c   Hurst, Sawan ^c   Pang, Jiaqing ^c   Weleber, Richard G ^b   Pillers, De Ann M ^b,c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark adapted; Electroretinogram; Isoflurane; Ketamine; Light adapted; Mouse; Xylazine

Indexed keywords

ACEPROMAZINE; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; XYLAZINE;

A WAVE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B WAVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DARK ADAPTATION; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; LIGHT ADAPTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA ROD; WAVEFORM;

EID: 35748931754     PISSN: 00124486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10633-007-9079-4     Document Type: Article

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