Fig. 2.

Proteins and genes related to the regulation of mitochondrial biogenesis in skeletal muscle before, 40 min, and 5 and 22 h after the termination of the endurance exercise (E) and endurance exercise followed by BCAA ingestion (EA). Phosphorylation levels of AMPK^Thr172 (a) and ACC^Ser79 (b) and mRNA abundance of total PGC-1α (c), NT-PGC-1α (d), TFAM (e), and VEGFA (f). Each target protein was normalized to GAPDH, each target mRNA was normalized to two reference genes (GAPDH and RPLP0), each value represents the median and interquartile range, *significant difference (P < 0.05)