Evaluation of rapid cooling and tricaine methanesulfonate (MS222) as methods of euthanasia in zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 785-789

  Wilson, Jolaine M ^a   Bunte, Ralph M ^a   Carty, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRICAINE;

ACIDITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOLING; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEATH; EUTHANASIA; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MUSCLE TWITCH; NONHUMAN; RIGHTING REFLEX; SWIMMING; VETERINARY MEDICINE; WATER IMMERSION; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINOBENZOIC ACIDS; ANESTHETICS; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; EUTHANASIA, ANIMAL; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIME FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO;

EID: 74049119835     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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