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Published in final edited form as: J Neurosci Methods. 2010 Sep 15;193(2):217–225. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.08.019

Table 1.

Example data on brain PtO₂ (mean±SD unless noted)

Brain PtO₂ (mmHg)	FiO₂ (%)	Method/ species	Notes	Ref.

14.4±2.5	21%	EPR in Wistar Rats (mean±SE)	0.8-1.0% Isofluorane	(Hou et al., 2005)
13.7±3	21%	EPR in Wistar Rats (mean±SE)	0.7-0.8% Halothane	(Hou et al., 2005)

6.7±1.9	33%	EPR in Rats (mean±SE)	KetamineXylazine	(Swartz et al., 2003)
13.9±3			Pentobarbital
16.0±4.5			Urethane/chloralose
22.6±1.1			1.5% Halothane
44.6±5.1			2.2% Isoflurane

26.7±7	26%	EPR in Rats	1.1% Isofluorane	(Lei et al., 2001)
29.6±8			Ketamine
19±7.8			Ketamine/Xylazine

26.0±4.8	28%	Oxylite in rats	Control group	(Nwaigwe et al., 2000)
14.8.0±5.2	28%	Oxylite in rats	After 10 min hyperventilation 2% isofluorane	(Nwaigwe et al., 2000)

27.1.0±7.5	21%	EPR in Rats	Awake, before acclimation and after living 4 days at 10% O₂	(Dunn et al., 2000)
49.0±11	21%	EPR in Rats	Awake, before acclimation and after living 4 days at 10% O₂	(Dunn et al., 2000)

15.1±1.8	30%	EPR in rats (mean±SE)	Ketamine/xylazine	(Rolett et al., 2000)
8.8±0.4	15%
6.8±0.3	10%

20.6±10	30%	Gold O₂ sensors in Rats	Urethane (750 mg/kg b.w.) or Pentobarbital (30 mg/kg b.w.)	(Metzger and Heuber, 1977)

14.4±1.6	21%	Polarographic electrodes in rats	Sodium Pentobarbital (50 mg/kg b.w.)	(Weiss et al., 1976)
9.6±1.1	10%	Polarographic electrodes in rats	Sodium Pentobarbital (50 mg/kg b.w.)	(Weiss et al., 1976)

21.2±2.0	21%	Electrode, Ground Squirrel (mean±SE)	Euthermy, non-sedated, non-anesthetized	(Ma and Wu, 2008)

12.9±0.9	30%	10 μm polarographic platinum electrodes in Wistar rats	Pentobarbitol-sodium 35mg/kg Turbocurarine-hydrochloride 10mg/kg	(Sick et al., 1982)