Loss of cortical function in mice after decapitation, cervical dislocation, potassium chloride injection, and CO2 inhalation

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 570-573

  Cartner, Samuel C ^a   Barlow, Shayne C ^a,c   Ness, Timothy J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CERVICAL SPINE DISLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECAPITATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECAPITATION; DISLOCATIONS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EUTHANASIA, ANIMAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HEART; INJECTIONS; MICE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38049021996     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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