Best anesthetics for assessing left ventricular systolic function by echocardiography in mice

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 308, Issue 12, 2015, Pages H1525-H1529

  Pachon, Ronald E ^a   Scharf, Bruce A ^a   Vatner, Dorothy E ^a   Vatner, Stephen F ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthetics; Conscious state; Echocardiography; Mice

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; BROMETHOL; CHLORALOSE; ETOMIDATE; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PENTOBARBITAL; SEVOFLURANE; URETHAN; XYLAZINE; ALCOHOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RATE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; 129 MOUSE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECTS; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE; PREDICTIVE VALUE;

ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLES; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; MALE; MICE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; STROKE VOLUME; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; XYLAZINE;

EID: 84931047577     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00890.2014     Document Type: Article

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