Ketamine decreases cell viability of bone explants and impairs bone healing in rats

Abstract Background Ketamine is a widely used anesthetic in experimental medicine. We have also used ketamine for surgical interventions and imaging in rats and found significantly impaired ossification between identically performed experiments, which only differed in the number of anesthetic events...

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Main Authors: Dénes B. Horváthy, Péter Szántó, Bence Marschall, Marcell Bagó, Márton Csery, István Hornyák, Attila Doros, Zsombor Lacza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-02-01
Series:Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13018-020-1579-x