Table 5. Concentrations of two cryoprotectants within liver and skeletal muscle of R. sylvatica subjected to different experimental freezing regimes.
Liver | Gracilis | |||||||
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Unfrozen | –8°C | –16°C | Cyclic | Unfrozen | –8°C | –16°C | Cyclic | |
Glucose | 4 | 1393 | 1760 | 941 | 1 | 83 | 64 | 146 |
Urea | 75 | 307 | 388 | 305 | 50 | 94 | 86 | 75 |
Glucose + urea | 79 | 1700 | 2148 | 1245 | 51 | 177 | 150 | 221 |