A critical test of Drosophila anaesthetics: Isoflurane and sevoflurane are benign alternatives to cold and CO2.

doi:10.1016/j.jinsphys.2017.07.005

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A critical test of Drosophila anaesthetics: Isoflurane and sevoflurane are benign alternatives to cold and CO2.

Journal of insect physiology - 1 Aug 2017

MacMillan Heath A, Nørgård Mikkel, MacLean Heidi J, Overgaard Johannes, Williams Catherine J A

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Anaesthesia is often a necessary step when studying insects like the model organism Drosophila melanogaster. Most studies of Drosophila and other insects that require anaesthesia use either cold exposure or carbon dioxide exposure to induce a narcotic state. These anaesthetic methods are known to disrupt physiology and behavior with increasing exposure, and thus ample recovery time is required prior to...

Topics

Anesthetics, General
Anesthetics, Inhalation
Animals
Carbon Dioxide
Cold Temperature
Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
Drosophila melanogaster
Female
Isoflurane
Male
Methyl Ethers
Phenotype
Sevoflurane

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PMID: 28733237
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2017.07.005

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