FIGURE 4.

Effect of severe food restriction (sFR) on isolated heart from male rats before and after ischaemia–reperfusion (I/R). Shown is perfusion pressure (PP; a), diastolic left ventricular pressure (dLVP; b), maximal rate of change of left ventricular perfusion pressure (Max dP/dt; c), minimal rate of change of left ventricular perfusion pressure (Min dP/dt; d) and heart rate (HR; e) in isolated hearts from control (CT; open circles) and sFR (filled squares) rats before [basal (B)] the 30 min ischaemic (I) period and after reperfusion (R). CT, n = 6; sFR, n = 7