results sixty patients completed the study. patients in the hydrocortisone group had no statistically significant abdominal and shoulder pain scores compared to the bupivacaine group. the patients were similar regarding postoperative analgesic requirements, return of bowel function, nausea and vomiting. no adverse effect was detected in either group. background postoperative pain is a major com...

A convenient method for chemically treating zebrafish is to introduce the reagent into the tank water, where it will be taken up by the fish. However, this method makes it difficult to know how much reagent is absorbed or taken up per fish. Some experimental questions, particularly those related to metabolic studies, may be better addressed by delivering a defined quantity to each fish, based o...

After a search on Medline, it appears that intraperitoneal injection of sodium pentobarbitone is often used for anaesthesia and euthanasia of rodents. In the present pilot study in rats, spinal nociception after intraperitoneal injection of sodium pentobarbitone, with and without lidocaine, was examined by estimation of the number of c-fos-expressing neurones in the spinal dorsal horn. One grou...

Erionite and crocidolite fibers were tested for carcinogenicity by intrapleural and intraperitoneal injection (una tantum) in 40 Sprague-Dawley rats per route for each fiber type. Pleural mesotheliomas were found in nine of ten animals that died within a year after intrapleural injection with erionite fibers. No pleural tumors were found among the animals treated at the same time and in the sam...

The intraperitoneal injection of gamma-radiated, UV-radiated, or unradiated P-815 tumor cells into syngeneic or allogeneic mice suppressed the immune response to a subsequent intraperitoneal injection of sheep erythrocytes in a manner similar to the suppression caused by the injection of manner similar to the suppression caused by the injection of horse erythrocytes and termed antigenic competi...

The physiological effects of acute stress (induced by an intraperitoneal injection) on the haematocrit, haemoglobin, serum cortisol and glucose, haemagglutinins and lysozyme were investigated in juvenile sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax. A total of 40 fish were subjected to an intraperitoneal injection. Eight fish were sampled at 0, 2, 4, 24 and 48 h after acute stress and compared to unstressed f...