Table 6.

Comparison of the chosen microcirculatory parameters and ratios between RIC and control groups with corresponding averages, standard deviations (SD), minimum (Min) and maximum (Max) values, median, and p-values of the Mann-Whitney-U test for the compared measurements.

Variable	Group	Number	Average	STD	Min	Median	Max	p-value
Flow ratio tumor/ hind limb (baseline phase)	Control	14	1.37	0.69	0.42	1.43	2,49	0.54
	RIC	14	1.20	0.63	0.47	1.02	2,56
sO2 ratio tumor/hind limb (baseline phase)	Control	14	0.85	0.29	0.39	0.81	1,57	0.35
	RIC	14	0.92	0.27	0.42	0.89	1,50
rHb ratio tumor/hind limb (baseline phase)	Control	14	0.67	0.30	0.30	0.68	1,19	0.45
	RIC	14	0.72	0.23	0.31	0.75	0,98
Flow ratio tumor/ hind limb (last reperfusion phase)	Control	14	1.36	0.50	0.41	1.42	2,07	0.7
	RIC	14	1.40	0.77	0.59	1.15	2,83
sO2 ratio tumor/hind limb (last reperfusion phase)	Control	14	0.85	0.16	0.66	0.81	1.14	0.03*
	RIC	14	1.03	0.32	0.27	0.96	1.68
rHb ratio tumor/hind limb (last reperfusion phase)	Control	14	0.70	0.26	0.43	0.56	1.12	0.16
	RIC	14	0.86	0.33	0.46	0.79	1.67
Δ flow hind limb	Control	14	15.53	29.84	-39.42	22.92	46.72	0.11
	RIC	14	-7.17	44.96	-94.03	7.30	63.19
Δ flow tumor	Control	14	16.26	35.98	-47.65	17.91	85.48	0.7
	RIC	14	11.36	33.39	-44.33	12.95	78.76
Δ sO2 hind limb	Control	14	6.02	9.92	-9.98	4.55	22.42	0.15
	RIC	14	-2.20	13.14	-36.00	2.70	10.54
Δ sO2 tumor	Control	14	5.27	8.95	-6.18	1.06	23.97	0.87
	RIC	14	3.91	8.37	-6.56	3.14	22.81
Δ rHb hind limb	Control	14	-1.09	6.10	-17.68	0.83	6.07	0.32
	RIC	14	-9.44	16.51	-45.65	-1.38	5.60
Δ rHb tumor	Control	14	0.27	12.99	-37.00	3.00	16.68	0.95
	RIC	14	0.58	10.51	-17.86	1.87	18.20

A statistically significant result is indicated with an asterisk (*).