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. 1977 Feb;58(1):40–41.

Use of anaesthesia with ketamine HCl in assessing the emetic activity of staphylococcal enterotoxin B in the rhesus monkey (Macacca mulatta).

J Melling
PMCID: PMC2041189  PMID: 402144

Abstract

Anaesthesia of rhesus monkeys with ketamine HCl which facilitated feeding them with staphylococcal enterotoxin B solutions was shown not to affect the ED50 of this toxin. Adoption of this anaesthetic procedure was found to make feeding studies with enterotoxins easier and safer.

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