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. 2010 Apr 15;2(4):200–223. doi: 10.18632/aging.100137

Table 2. Mitochondrial oxygen consumption (nmol O 2/min.mg prot) in in wild type flies (wt) and flies expressing (AOX/da-GAL4), or not expressing AOX (AOX/–).

AOX flies are from line F6. For equivalent data for line F24 see Supplementary Table 1. Results are presented as mean ± SEM. Number of independent samples in parentheses.

wt AOX/- AOX/da-GAL4 ANOVA
males females males females males females
Pyruvate + Proline
State 4 35 ± 7 (9) 42 ± 9 (10) 32 ± 7 (8) 35 ± 6 (9) 35 ± 5 (7) 46 ± 5 (10) NS
State 3 410 ± 45 (9) 493 ± 48 (10) 419 ± 41 (8) 495 ± 40 (9) 488 ± 54 (7) 491±35 (10) NS
RCI 16 ± 5 (9) 17 ± 5 (10) 15 ± 3 (8) 19 ± 4 (9) 15 ± 2 (7) 15 ± 1 (10) NS
sn-glycerol-3-Phosphate + rotenone
State 4 65 ± 16 (6) 88 ± 27 (6) 132 ± 28 (8) 112 ± 12 (7) 98± 29 (5) 104 ± 14 (8) NS
State 3 255 ± 58 (8) 273 ± 35 (6) 254 ± 27 (8) 288 ± 45 (7) 241 ± 26 (5) 276 ± 44 (8) NS
RCI 2.1 ± 0.2 (8) 2.2 ± 0.4 (6) 2.3 ± 0.7 (8) 2.3 ± 0.4 (7) 2.4 ± 0.7(5) 2.9 ± 0.5 (8) NS