Abstract
Eight male camels were subjected to clinical examination to enure their healthy status and parasitic free. Normal sampling day started at 8:30 a.m. and lasted at 3:30 p.m. and it served as control day. Another day the animals were fasted for 24 hours to resemble the fasting during anaesthesia. Propofol @ 2 mg kg(-1) injected via an indwelling intravenous catheter. Sampling procedures include pre-injection, served as base line values, during anaesthesia more frequent sampling were carried out, followed by the recovery time. The same sampling protocols followed for the other anaesthetic regimes (propofol 2 mg kg(-1)\xylazine 0.25 mg kg(-1) and propofol 2 mg kg(-1)\ xylazine 0.25 mg kg(-1)\diazepam 0.25 mg kg(-1)).
A significant variation was observed in both cortisol and glucose values (P<0.01) of these anaesthetic regimes, on the other hand the recovery time from anaesthesia showed the highest Cortisol and glucose values compared with the base line values (pre-injection) and the anaesthesia time.