An evaluation of three anaesthetic regimes in the gray short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica)

Autor: Keller, L. S. F., Drozdowicz, C. K., Rice, L., Bowman, T. A., Lang, C. M.
Zdroj: Laboratory Animals; July 1988, Vol. 22 Issue: 3 p269-275, 7p
Abstrakt: The effect of several anaesthetic agents on the gray short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica) was investigated. Pentobarbitone sodium at a dose of 50 mg/kg sedated the animals but did not produce analgesia or anaesthesia. A combination of ketamine hydrochloride and xylazine at 40 mg/kg and 5 mg/kg, respectively, sedated the animals, but anaesthetic lerels were not attained. Halothane was most effective in producing anaesthesia in Monodelphis domestica. Hypothermia was a major side effect with all three anaesthetic regimes.
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