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The Struggle To Find Appropriate Anaesthetics For Invertebrates: Fast, Effective Anaesthetization Of Octopus vulgaris
2023-10-19
Abstract excerpt
A wide variety of substances have been used to anaesthetise invertebrates, but many are not anaesthetics and merely incapacitate animals, rather than preventing pain. Much is now known about the mode of action of modern clinical and veterinary anaesthetics because of their use on human beings and other vertebrates. In essence, the role of an ideal general anaesthetic is to act as a muscle relaxant, an analgesic, a...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b8f8aaed-ee88-5324-8c37-62b293d21996
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202310.1188.v1
