Table 3.
Regression analysis of logarithmic transformations of spindle counts against muscle mass for four homologous muscle series
| Muscle | Statistics | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Species | Mass (g) | Spindle count | ln mass | ln spin count | Coefficients | t | P | Range of residuals | ||
| FHL | guinea-pig | 0.02 | 2 | −3.91 | 0.69 | intercept | 3.18 | 9.53 | 0.01 | |
| rat | 0.5 | 25 | −0.69 | 3.22 | slope | 0.52 | 4.75 | 0.04 | ||
| cat | 3.25 | 75 | 1.18 | 4.32 | −0.48, 0.53 | |||||
| human | 89.4 | 152 | 4.49 | 5.02 | ||||||
| GASTR | guinea-pig | 1.3 | 33 | 0.26 | 3.50 | intercept | 3.76 | 16.97 | < 0.01 | |
| rat | 1.44 | 58 | 0.36 | 4.06 | slope | 0.23 | 3.42 | 0.08 | ||
| cat | 14.95 | 97 | 2.70 | 4.57 | −0.32, 0.22 | |||||
| human | 390.1 | 156 | 5.97 | 5.05 | ||||||
| SOL | mouse | 0.008 | 14 | −4.83 | 2.64 | intercept | 3.89 | 17.53 | < 0.001 | |
| guinea-pig | 0.08 | 11 | −2.53 | 2.40 | slope | 0.33 | 5.60 | 0.01 | ||
| rat* | 0.11 | 34 | −2.21 | 3.53 | −0.66, 0.36 | |||||
| cat | 2.49 | 56 | 0.91 | 4.03 | ||||||
| human | 434 | 408 | 6.07 | 6.01 | ||||||
| SPLEN | rat | 46 | 0.81 | −0.21 | 3.83 | intercept | 4.22 | 10.03 | 0.06 | |
| cat | 170 | 2.92 | 1.07 | 5.14 | slope | 0.46 | 2.52 | 0.24 | ||
| human† | 346 | 46.5 | 3.84 | 5.85 | −0.29, 0.43 | |||||
*
The spindle count for the rat soleus is that of Arendt & Asmussen (1974); Kucera et al. (1989) give a value of 21.
†
The spindle count for the human splenius is the sum of the counts for splenius capitis and splenius cervicis (Voss, 1971).