Table 1.

Tibialis Muscle Mass and Tensions at 14 Days of Immobilization

	Muscle Mass (mg)		Muscle Mass/B.W.* (mg/g)		Twitch Tension (g)		Specific Tension** (g/mg)		Specific Tension/B.W.¶ (g/mg/B.W.)
	Contra	Immob	Contra	Immob	Contra	Immob	Contra	Immob	Contra	Immob
Mean	52.1	40.6	1.8	1.4	42.9	34.8	0.8	0.9	23.7	24.8
S.E.	2.0	2.8	0.1	0.1	1.5	1.1	0.03	0.03	1.1	0.7
P Value ≤	0.01		0.01		0.01		0.32		0.43

Contra And Immob are Contralateral and Immobilized sides of the same animals.

^*Muscle Mass/B.W. is the muscle mass normalized to body weight.

^**Specific Tension is tension per gram muscle weight.

^¶Specific Tension/B.W. is the tension per gram muscle weight normalized to body weight.