The effects of depth of isoflurane anesthesia on the performance of mice in a simple spatial learning task

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 16-19

  Valentim, Ana M ^a,b   Alves, Heber C ^a,b   Olsson, I Anna S ^a   Antunes, Luís M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOFLO; ISOFLURANE;

ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DRUG MECHANISM; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANIMALS; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ISOFLURANE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL;

MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 44649149078     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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