Abstract
Summary
A 5 g % decrease in body fat of the rat resulted in a 100% increase in length of thiopental anesthesia at a fixed thiopental dosage, or a 40% decrease in the amount of thiopental required for a given duration of anesthesia. In contrast the duration of pentobarbital anesthesia was unaffected by the amount of body fat.
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