Alterations in blood sugar, serum insulin and circulating free fatty acid responses to glucose load produced in dogs by chloralose anaesthesia.

The effects of chloralose anaesthesia on the BS, serum IRI and circulating FEA responses to glucose in dogs, in the course of glucose tolerance tests were studied. Chloralose induced a moderate glucose intolerance, and abolished both, the insulin response to hyperglycaemia in these animals and the lipolytic response at the end of the test. These effects indicate that chloralose anaesthesia is definitely improper for metabolic studied in experimental biology.