... longer-lasting decrease in cardiac output and bloodpressure [25]. Xylazine-induced decreases in heart rate and cardiac output are moderated by ketamine’s sympathomimeticaction, while blood pressure and ... induced, it was maintained at least with 2% of isoflurane (Isoflurane, Rhodia, UK). During the procedure,the pulmonary arterial temperature was maintained at38.0±0.5oC using a circulating ... 0.03 mg/kg acepromazine and 0.04 mg/kg of atropine (Daihan Pharm, Korea)following intravenous injection of 10 mg/kg of ketamine(Ketalar, Yuhan, Korea) with 2.2 mg/kg of xylazine(Rompun, Bayer...