Decapitation in Rats: Latency to Unconsciousness and the ‘Wave of Death’

The question whether decapitation is a humane method of euthanasia in awake animals is being debated. To gather arguments in this debate, obsolete rats were decapitated while recording the EEG, both of awake rats and of anesthetized rats. Following decapitation a fast and global loss of power of the...

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Autores principales: Rijn, Clementina M. van., Krijnen, Hans, Menting-Hermeling, Saskia, Coenen, Anton M. L.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3029360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21304584
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016514

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3029360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21304584
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016514

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