title: Perfusion in the experimental preservation of the rat heart.
abstract: Rat hearts have been preserved for 24 hours using four different preservation solutions. The results suggest that the best preservation fluid is Tyrode's solution with Ficoll 5 per cent. A comparison of simple cooling of the heart and perfusion, either continuous or intermittent, has shown that intermittent perfusion of the heart for 2 minutes every 6 hours gives the highest rate of 24-hour preservation.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D009926:Organ Preservation / Q000379:methods*; D010477:Perfusion / Q000379:methods; D051381:Rats; D013997:Time Factors; D014021:Tissue Preservation / Q000379:methods*; D014022:Tissue Survival; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous