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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Feb 17.
Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2009 Aug;41(8):1597–1605. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31819f1f05

Table 2.

Body composition at ~8–10 weeks on study and body and muscle weights at sacrifice by experiment and treatment group.*

Group DXA data at ~8–10 wks on study Weights at sacrifice


Experiment 1 N Body Weight (g) Fat (%) BMD (mg/cm2) Lean mass(g) N Body weight (g) Heart (g) Gastrocnemius (g)


CON-TREX 22 27.4 ± 0.9 32.4 ± 2.0 48.5 ± 0.7 18.4 ± 0.7 19 36.5 ± 2.0 0.15 ± 0.01 0.10 ± 0.01
TREX1 20 24.6 ± 0.9 30.3 ± 2.1 51.6 ± 0.7§ 17.0 ± 0.7 13 28.8 ± 2.2 0.16 ± 0.01 0.11 ± 0.01
TREX2 21 23.2 ± 0.9§ 26.7 ± 2.1 52.0 ± 0.7§ 16.8 ± 0.7 16 30.1 ± 1.5 0.17 ± 0.01 0.10 ± 0.01
Experiment 2
CON-WHL 18 24.9 ± 0.9 40.9 ± 1.9 48.9 ± 0.8 14.5 ± 0.2 16 35.3 ± 2.4 0.14 ± 0.01 0.08 ± 0.01
WHL 18 22.2 ± 0.6 29.3 ± 1.7§ 51.5 ± 0.8 15.5 ± 0.3§ 20 24.7 ± 0.8§ 0.19 ± 0.01§ 0.12 ± 0.01§
*

Only mice not censored from the survival analysis are included in the measurements of weight at sacrifice.

adjusted for total body mass

p<0.05 vs. respective control group (using Tukey-Kramer adjustment for multiple comparisons in Treadmill experiment)

§

p<0.01 vs. respective control group (using Tukey -Kramer adjustment for multiple comparisons in Treadmill experiment)