“…The continuous infusion of adenosine (Ado) significantly accelerates the restoration of myocardial adenine nucleotides (AN) after severe anaerobiosis (13,15,19,25), which otherwise lasts very long depending on the extent of AN degradation (13, 15, 20-22, 27, 40, 44), and also significantly raises the myocardial AN above the normal tissue levels (17,18,26).…”