Reduction of Cardiac Cell Death after Helium Postconditioning in Rats: Transcriptional Analysis of Cell Death and Survival Pathways

Table 2 Hemodynamics (mean arterial pressure and heart rate) sampled after 15 min of baseline, 24 min of ischemia and 15 min of reperfusion.^a

Group^b	Baseline	After 24 min of ischemia	After 5 min of reperfusion	After 15 min of reperfusion	After 30 min of reperfusion
Mean AP^c (mmHg)
Sham	111 ± 13	113 ± 22	113 ± 21	98 ± 20
I	95 ± 16	110 ± 15
I/R5	90 ± 33	95 ± 19	73 ± 20
I/R15	95 ± 24	93 ± 20	83 ± 21	62 ± 8
I/R30	96 ± 29	91 ± 28	80 ± 24	79 ± 21	60 ± 15
He5	102 ± 20	108 ± 23	78 ± 21
He15	102 ± 20	108 ± 17	96 ± 14	75 ± 11
He30	97 ± 25	100 ± 24	95 ± 18	91 ± 23	69 ± 15
Mean HR^d (BPM)
Sham	372 ± 20	373 ± 20	363 ± 24	352 ± 32
I	341 ± 40	367 ± 32
I/R5	338 ± 29	354 ± 29	330 ± 18
I/R15	320 ± 60	340 ± 50	326 ± 46	306 ± 44	320 ± 39
I/R30	329 ± 62	359 ± 39	342 ± 38	346 ± 41
He5	360 ± 36	366 ± 16	344 ± 35
He15	338 ± 35	365 ± 36	350 ± 37	324 ± 34
He30	343 ± 57	366 ± 36	347 ± 47	359 ± 40	328 ± 51

^aData are shown as mean ± SD. At each time point there were no significant differences between different experimental groups.
^bOn group infomation, see Materials and Methods and Figure 1.
^cMean AP, mean arterial pressure in mmHg.
^dMean HR, mean heart rate in beats/minute.

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