Immobilization of muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) with etorphine and xylazine

One hundred and thirty three "wild" muskoxen, 81 of which of known body mass, were successfully immobilized using etorphine (M99), and xylazine (Rompun(®)), delivered by use of a dart gun. A dose of 0.05 mg/kg M99, supplemented by 0.15 mg/kg Rompun was found to be very effective. This dose...

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Autores principales: Blix, Arnoldus Schytte, Lian, Hans, Ness, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3141559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21707976
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0147-53-42
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description One hundred and thirty three "wild" muskoxen, 81 of which of known body mass, were successfully immobilized using etorphine (M99), and xylazine (Rompun(®)), delivered by use of a dart gun. A dose of 0.05 mg/kg M99, supplemented by 0.15 mg/kg Rompun was found to be very effective. This dose is much higher than currently recommended e.g. by Handbook of Wildlife Chemical Immobilization.
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spelling pubmed-31415592011-07-23 Immobilization of muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) with etorphine and xylazine Blix, Arnoldus Schytte Lian, Hans Ness, John Acta Vet Scand Brief Communication One hundred and thirty three "wild" muskoxen, 81 of which of known body mass, were successfully immobilized using etorphine (M99), and xylazine (Rompun(®)), delivered by use of a dart gun. A dose of 0.05 mg/kg M99, supplemented by 0.15 mg/kg Rompun was found to be very effective. This dose is much higher than currently recommended e.g. by Handbook of Wildlife Chemical Immobilization. BioMed Central 2011-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3141559/ /pubmed/21707976 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0147-53-42 Text en Copyright ©2011 Blix et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Brief Communication
Blix, Arnoldus Schytte
Lian, Hans
Ness, John
Immobilization of muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) with etorphine and xylazine
title Immobilization of muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) with etorphine and xylazine
title_full Immobilization of muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) with etorphine and xylazine
title_fullStr Immobilization of muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) with etorphine and xylazine
title_full_unstemmed Immobilization of muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) with etorphine and xylazine
title_short Immobilization of muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) with etorphine and xylazine
title_sort immobilization of muskoxen (ovibos moschatus) with etorphine and xylazine
topic Brief Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3141559/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0147-53-42
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