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Body cooling as a supplement to anaesthesia for fishes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

R. M. Williamson  and
B. L. Roberts
R. M. Williamson
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth
B. L. Roberts
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth
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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.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 61 , Issue 1 , February 1981 , pp. 129 - 131
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1981

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