Isoflurane and sevoflurane provide equally effective anaesthesia in laboratory mice

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 329-336

  Cesarovic, Nikola ^a   Nicholls, Flora ^a,b   Rettich, Andreas ^a   Kronen, Peter ^c   Hässig, Michael ^a   Jirkof, Paulin ^a   Arras, Margarete ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Veterinary Anaesthesia Services   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; Isoflurane; Mice; Mouse; Sevoflurane

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; ISOFLURANE; OXYGEN; SEVOFLURANE;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREATHING; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; DRUG EFFICACY; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; FACE MASK; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; HEART RATE; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOTHERMIA; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; LOCOMOTION; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TELEMETRY;

ANESTHESIA RECOVERY PERIOD; ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DRINKING; EATING; FEMALE; ISOFLURANE; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE; LOCOMOTION; METHYL ETHERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; RESPIRATION; TELEMETRY; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 77958086751     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/la.2010.009085     Document Type: Article

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