Electro-acupuncture reduces the need for additional anesthetics in experimental studies

Acta Cirurgica Brasileira

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 381-384

  Silva, Agamenon Honório ^a   Neto, Alberico Ximenes Do Prado ^a   Guimarães, Sérgio Botelho ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b UFC ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Anesthesia; Eletroacupuncture; Ketamine; Rats; Xylazine

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; XYLAZINE;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; RAT; SAFETY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA; ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ANESTHETICS, COMBINED; ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; KETAMINE; MALE; MUSCLE RELAXANTS, CENTRAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS; XYLAZINE;

EID: 77956165406     PISSN: 01028650     EISSN: 16782674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0102-86502010000400015     Document Type: Article

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