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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Surg Res. 2017 Mar 31;216:80–86. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2017.03.025

Figure 4. Rat aorta (RA) tissue viability is maintained after treatment with exogenous ATP.

Figure 4

RA segments were incubated in either heparinized PlasmaLyte alone (control) or with 20mM exogenous ATP for 1 hour at room temperature. The tissue was then subjected to a methyl tetrazolium (MTT) assay and the optical density was measured by spectrophotography. Percent viability was calculated with the control tissue set at 100% (n=5, p=0.49, n.s. = not significant).