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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Cardiovasc Pharmacol Ther. 2009 Sep;14(3):199–206. doi: 10.1177/1074248409340160

Figure 1.

Figure 1

One second of data at each time period for arterial pressure, ECG, and terminal aortic blood flow velocity before occlusion of the left main coronary artery (pre-occlusion), at 3.5 minutes of coronary artery occlusion and at the onset of ventricular tachycardia in an intact conscious male rat under the control (panel A) and remote (panel B) experimental conditions. Coronary artery occlusion resulted in S-T segment elevation followed by sustained ventricular tachycardia. Coronary artery occlusion in the remote conditioning group was associated with a lower ST segment elevation and a delayed onset of ventricular tachycardia compared to the control group. In this example, the ST segment elevation in the control condition was 0.17 vs 0.08 volts in the remote condition. Furthermore, the ventricular arrhythmia threshold was significantly longer in the control versus the remote conditioning group.