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The animals were lightly anesthetized with 10 mg/kg intramuscular ketamine (Ketaject; Phoenix Pharmaceuticals, St Joseph, MO) and euthanized with an overdose of intravenous pentobarbital (Euthanasia-V; Henry Schein, Port Washington, NY).
And aging bad boy Gary Busey, 54, is getting divorced from Tiani, his 30-year-old wife of less than two years, reports the Globe . Although she saw him through sinus cancer and a drug overdose, she tells "sources" his abusive behavior landed her in rehab.
He died of a heroin overdose in relative obscurity.
Critics call Gregory ( Selena ) Nava's latest pop-star biopic of doo-wopster Frankie Lymon a sort of "comic Rashomon of rock-and-roll" (Lawrence Van Gelder, the New York Times ). Lymon, who became a star at 13 and died of a drug overdose at 25, married three women without divorcing any of them; only after his death did the three find out about one another.
Two animals of each group (experimental and control) were sacrificed with an overdose of penthobarbital sodium through the marginal ear vein at each of the following postoperative intervals: immediately after treatment, 4 hours after treatment, 1 week and at one, three and six postoperative months.