Desipramine Pretreatment Improves Sympathetic Remodeling and Ventricular Fibrillation Threshold after Myocardial Ischemia

Table 2

Infarct size and VFT in the four groups (mean ± SD).

Group	Infarct size (%)	VFT (V)
Sham-operated group		13.0±2.12
Control ischemic group	30.8±1.3	7.2±1.30 *
Preischemic treatment group	23.3±2.4^☆	11.0±2.65^☆
Delayed application group	27.1±2.6^☆#	10.4±3.05^☆

^∗𝑃<0.05 when compared with the sham-operated group.
^☆𝑃<0.05 when compared with the control ischemic group.
^#𝑃<0.05 when compared with the preischemic treatment group.