Real-time telemetric monitoring in whole-body 60Co gamma-photon irradiated rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)

Journal of Medical Primatology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 399-407

  Carrier, C A ^a   Elliott, T B ^a   Ledney, G D ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Distress; Monkey; Non human primate (NHP); Pain; Procedure; Radiation; Radiotelemetry

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING RATE; CAGE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART RATE; HOUSING; IRRADIATION; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PARAMETER; PHOTON; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEMETRY; THORAX PRESSURE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; HEART RATE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; RESPIRATION; TELEMETRY; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 78149291835     PISSN: 00472565     EISSN: 16000684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0684.2010.00426.x     Document Type: Article

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