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ArticleJournal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS2013

Comparison of ketamine-xylazine and ketamine-dexmedetomidine anesthesia and intraperitoneal tolerance in rats.

David Wellington, Igor Mikaelian, Laura Singer

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Article in Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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80citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

80 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 111 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Comparative analysis of autonomic effects of ketamine-xylazine in normotensive and hypertensive rats.Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologica · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

David WellingtonHoffmann-La Roche, Department of Comparative Medicine, Nutley, NJ, USA. davidwellington07@hotmail.com
Igor Mikaelian
Laura Singer
La Roche College · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We compared ketamine-xylazine (K, 100 mg/kg; X, 10 mg/kg) and ketamine-dexmedetomidine (K, 75 mg/kg; D, 1.0 mg/kg) for their ability to produce anesthesia, their tissue tolerance, and the reversibility of their effects by atipamezole (1.0 mg/kg) after intraperitoneal administration to Wistar Han rats. Both anesthetic combinations led to a comparable level of anesthesia over a 30-min period. However, the administration of KD led to a 20% decrease in heart rate, 33% decrease in respiratory rate, and a 20% decrease in peripheral oxygen saturation from baseline levels. Intraperitoneal administration of saline and both anesthetic combinations was associated with mild transient increases in serum ALT and AST concentrations in the absence of histomorphologic findings in liver. Muscle and tissue necrosis at the intraperitoneal injection sites correlated with increases in serum creatine kinase concentrations in rats given KD or KX; these increases were more severe in the KX group than the KD group. Compared with KX, intraperitoneal administration of KD offered better local tolerance and anesthesia of similar quality and depth.

Indexed as

AnesthesiaAnestheticsAnimalsDexmedetomidineDrug Therapy, CombinationHeart RateImidazolesInjections, IntraperitonealKetamineMaleRatsRats, WistarXylazineAnestheticsatipamezoleDexmedetomidineImidazolesKetamineXylazine

Identifiers

PMID23849447
PMCPMC3725934
OpenAlexW1574386044

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