Effects of medetomidine and ketamine on the regional cerebral blood flow in cats: A SPECT study

Veterinary Journal

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 81-88

  Waelbers, T ^a   Peremans, K ^a   Vermeire, S ^a   Piron, K ^a   Doom, M ^a   Boer, V O ^c   de Leeuw, H ^c   Vente, M A D ^c   Dobbeleir, A ^a,b   Gielen, I ^a   Audenaert, K ^b   Polis, I ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain perfusion; Cat; HiSPECT; Ketamine; Medetomidine

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M; KETAMINE; MEDETOMIDINE; PROPOFOL; PROPOVET; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; INTERMITTENT POSITIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; SEDATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS;

ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; ANIMALS; BLOOD CIRCULATION TIME; CATS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; CYSTEINE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KETAMINE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDETOMIDINE; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84859508652     PISSN: 10900233     EISSN: 15322971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2011.04.017     Document Type: Article

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