Population
Anaesthetised open chest rabbits
Design
Preclinical
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Highlights recruitable microvascular reserve in rabbits; leaves open human relevance and requires prospective validation.
This morphometric method demonstrates that only about half of the rabbit left ventricular microvasculature is perfused at baseline, revealing a significant functional reserve that can be mobilized during stress such as asphyxia.
Weiss et al. (1985) studied this question.
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