Pharmacokinetics and physiologic effects of intramuscularly administered xylazine hydrochloride-ketamine hydrochloridebutorphanol tartrate alone or in combination with orally administered sodium salicylate on biomarkers of pain in holstein calves following castration and dehorning

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1305-1317

  Baldridge, Sarah L ^a   Coetzee, Johann F ^a,e   Dritz, Steve S ^b   Reinbold, James B ^c   Gehring, Ronette ^a   Havel, James ^d   Kukanich, Butch ^c  

^a Department of Clinical Sciences ^*  (United States)

^b Food Animal Health and Management Center   (United States)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PharmCATS Bioanalytical Services   (United States)

^e IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTORPHANOL TARTRATE; DRINKING WATER; HYDROCORTISONE; KETAMINE; SALICYLATE SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; XYLAZINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALF (BOVINE); CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; HORN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; SHAM PROCEDURE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANALGESICS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOMARKERS, PHARMACOLOGICAL; BUTORPHANOL; CATTLE; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION IMMUNOASSAY; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HORNS; HYDROCORTISONE; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; KETAMINE; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; SODIUM SALICYLATE; XYLAZINE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 80053640228     PISSN: 00029645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.72.10.1305     Document Type: Article

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