Decapitation in rats: Latency to unconsciousness and the 'wave of death'

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  van Rijn, Clementina M ^a   Krijnen, Hans ^a   Menting Hermeling, Saskia ^a   Coenen, Anton M L ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DECAPITATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; RAT; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; WAKEFULNESS; ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EUTHANASIA; NERVE CONDUCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; DEATH; DECAPITATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EUTHANASIA; NEURAL CONDUCTION; RATS; TIME FACTORS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 79551536209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016514     Document Type: Article

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