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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 21.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Physiol. 1998 Dec;275(6 0 1):E1092–E1099. doi: 10.1152/ajpendo.1998.275.6.E1092

Table 7.

Estimated muscle mass and breakdown rates of myofibrillar protein, MHC, and actin

Breakdown Rates, mg·kg body wt−1·h−1
Subject
No.
Muscle
Mass, kg
Myofibrillar
protein
MHC Actin
1 21.2 30.0 6.33 6.38
2 39.8 33.4 7.38 12.08
3 23.8 22.9 10.46 6.42
4 33.5 36.6 9.67 12.54
5 31.1 33.5 9.54 8.17
6 30.6 25.0 8.33 14.17
Mean±SE 30.0±2.7 30.3±2.2 8.62±0.64 9.96±1.38