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The model of experimental myocardial infarction in rats was used to study the effect of procedures of transcardiac galvanization (the current power 4 mA, duration 60 min) on the condition of the peri-infarction zone microcirculatory bed. The morphometric studies of the microcirculatory bed were performed using PAS reaction with amylase using a net with equidistant points. Two runs of transcardiac galvanization by the end of the first 24 hours of myocardial infarction was shown to improve the condition of the capillary network, to increase the relative and absolute area of the capillaries, the number of opened reserve capillaries, to reduce the distance of oxygen and metabolites diffusion from capillaries to cardiomyocytes in the peri-infarction zone thereby creating favourable conditions for the remaining viable myocardium and for stabilization of the affected zone.

Activity of ATPase in functional element of myocardium (its qualitative and quantitative aspects) has been researched in normal tissue and in one with various levels of hypothermic ischemia (28-30 degrees C and 10-12 degrees C) by methods of electron microscopic histochemistry on dogs. It has been found that hypothermia of myocardium (10-12 degrees C) optimally prevents ischemic disorders of energetic processes. Reproduction activity of ATPase during reperfusion of myocardium after that hypothermia maintains contractile function of heart in proper high level.

Erythrocyte morphology, their aggregation ability and microcirculatory pattern in the mesentery of the small intestine have been studied stepwise on 12 dogs under artificial blood circulation. It has been shown that erythrocyte lesions followed by pathological aggregation play an important role in the pathogenesis of microcirculatory failure. Prolonged artificial circulation provokes structural reorganization in erythrocytes, thus affecting both blood rheology and gas exchange.