Do Fish Perceive Anaesthetics as Aversive?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Readman, Gareth D ^a,b   Owen, Stewart F ^a   Murrell, Joanna C ^b   Knowles, Toby G ^b  

^a ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; BENZOCAINE; BROMETHOL; ETHYL 3 AMINOBENZOATE METHANESULPHATE; ETOMIDATE; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; ISOEUGENOL; LIDOCAINE; PROPOXATE; QUINALDINE SULPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; SWIMMING; ZEBRA FISH;

ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; SWIMMING; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84884506267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073773     Document Type: Article

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