Towards optimized anesthesia protocols for stereotactic surgery in rats: Analgesic, stress and general health effects of injectable anesthetics. A comparison of a recommended complete reversal anesthesia with traditional chloral hydrate monoanesthesia

Brain Research

Volumn 1642, Issue , 2016, Pages 364-375

  Hüske, Christin ^a   Sander, Svenja Esther ^b   Hamann, Melanie ^c   Kershaw, Olivia ^b   Richter, Franziska ^a   Richter, Angelika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chloral hydrate; Complete reversalanesthesia; Injectable anesthetic; Refinement

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CHLORAL HYDRATE; FENTANYL; IMMUNOREACTIVE CORTICOSTERONE; ISOFLURANE; MEDETOMIDINE; MIDAZOLAM; NORADRENALIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; AGITATION; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EXOPHTHALMOS; FEMALE; HYPOTHERMIA; LIVER NECROSIS; MALE; MYOSITIS; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESTLESSNESS; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; STRESS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETIOLOGY; INJECTION; MENTAL STRESS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; CHLORAL HYDRATE; FEMALE; FENTANYL; INJECTIONS; ISOFLURANE; MALE; MEDETOMIDINE; MIDAZOLAM; MODELS, ANIMAL; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RATS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84973324674     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2016.04.019     Document Type: Article

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