Body cooling as a supplement to anaesthesia for fishes
- 1 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 61 (1) , 129-131
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400045963
Abstract
Whole body cooling of dogfish initially anaesthetized with MS 222 produced total immobility and permitted prolonged surgical procedures. Additional anaesthesia was not required, and on rewarming recovery was rapid.Electromyographic recordings of jaw-closing and fin-elevating reflexes of the dogfish during body cooling indicated that processes within the central nervous system were being blocked and that the effect was most pronounced on polysynaptic reflexes.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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