Chloral hydrate is not acceptable for anesthesia or euthanasia of small animals

Anesthesiology

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 209-

  Baxter, Mark G ^a   Murphy, Kathy L ^b   Taylor, Polly M ^b   Wolfensohn, Sarah E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETON ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; CHLORAL HYDRATE; PROPOFOL;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; DRUG CHOICE; EUTHANASIA; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPNOSIS; HYPOXEMIA; ILEUS; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SIDE EFFECT; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; STOMACH ULCER;

EID: 67650077381     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181a8617e     Document Type: Letter

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