Table 3.

Mitochondrial oxygen consumption in quadriceps of pair-fed (PF, n = 10) and peritoneal carcinosis (PC, n = 10) rats

In natoms/min/mg of proteins	State III	State IV	Uncoupled state	RCR
PF	600 ± 20	137 ± 4	603 ± 18	4.4 ± 0.2
PC	480 ± 20a	124 ± 5	508 ± 25a	3.9 ± 0.2

The measurements were run with succinate as energy substrate. State III: phosphorylating state was performed in the presence of ADP; state IV: non-phosphorylating state was obtained after the addition of oligomycin; uncoupled state was determined with the uncoupling reagent FCCP. The RCR was calculated as state III/state IV. Values are means ± SEM. Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05

^aSignificantly different from PF