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Figure 5

From: The protective effects of a phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitor, sildenafil, on postresuscitation cardiac dysfunction of cardiac arrest: metabolic evidence from microdialysis

Figure 5

The myocardial interstitial fluid concentrations of glucose, lactate, pyruvate, glycerol and glutamate as determined by microdialysis under basal conditions (before ventricular fibrillation) and after ventricular fibrillation. (A) Myocardial interstitial fluid (ISF) concentrations of glucose. (B) ISF concentrations of lactate (Lac). (C) ISF concentrations of pyruvate. (D): ISF concentrations of glycerol. (E) ISF concentrations of lactate/pyruvate (Lac/pyr). (F) ISF concentrations of glutamate. The values are reported as mean ± SD. CPR, Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; ROSC, restoration of spontaneous circulation; VF, Ventricular fibrillation. *P < 0.05 vs. sham, **P < 0.01 vs. sham, ΔP < 0.05 vs. saline (one-way repeated-measures analysis of variance).

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