Preferable Anesthetic Conditions for Echocardiographic Determination of Murine Cardiac Function
Ketamine and xylazine are routinely used for measurement of hemodynamics of mice and rats by echocardiography. The anesthetic agents produce low heart rate (HR) in the animals, which may result in misleading data in the hemodynamic profiles of the small animals. The purpose of the present study was...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2005-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of Pharmacological Sciences |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1347861319321383 |