Preferable Anesthetic Conditions for Echocardiographic Determination of Murine Cardiac Function

• Main Authors: Yuji Kawahara (Author), Kouichi Tanonaka (Author), Takuya Daicho (Author), Mikio Nawa (Author), Ryo Oikawa (Author), Yoshihisa Nasa (Author), Satoshi Takeo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...