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. 2016 Sep 21;10:65–77. doi: 10.1016/j.redox.2016.09.009

Table 7.

Partial correlations between platelet bioenergetics with skeletal and cardiac muscle bioenergetics. Partial correlations and 95% confidence intervals of platelet respiratory parameters with bioenergetics from isolated mitochondria from left vastus lateralis and cardiac tissue, controlling for age, weight, and insulin status.

Partial (age)
Partial (weight)
Partial (HOMA-IR)
Basal (95% CI) MAX (95% CI) Reserve (95% CI) Basal (95% CI) MAX (95% CI) Reserve (95% CI) Basal (95% CI) MAX (95% CI) Reserve (95% CI)
Left vastus CII:
State 3 0.05 (−0.52 to 0.67) 0.34 (−0.02 to 0.69) 0.59 (0.20–0.85) 0.03 (−0.68 to 0.55) 0.30 (−0.32 to 0.62) 0.57 (0.07–0.80) −0.02 (−0.54 to 0.59) 0.28 (−0.13 to 0.66) 0.56 (0.10–0.84)
MAX 0.26 (−0.32 to 0.75) 0.51 (0.11–0.81) 0.67 (0.29–0.92) 0.10 (−0.61 to 0.59) 0.35 (−0.24 to 0.67) 0.58 (0.12–0.84) 0.02 (−0.52 to 0.62) 0.30 (−0.18 to 0.74) 0.55 (0.05–0.90)
RCR-A 0.23 (−0.27 to 0.83) 0.42 (0.04–0.81) 0.53 (0.03–0.83) 0.43 (−0.19 to 0.85) 0.58 (0.18–0.86) 0.63 (0.21–0.89) 0.29 (−0.31 to 0.84) 0.44 (0.00–0.80) 0.51 (−0.05 to 0.84)
RCR-F 0.56 (0.08–0.93) 0.70 (0.39–0.91) 0.71 (0.37–0.92) 0.50 (−0.09 to 0.93) 0.67 (0.29–0.91) 0.73 (0.45–0.91) 0.36 (−0.25 to 0.91) 0.55 (0.08–0.86) 0.64 (0.25–0.86)
Cardiac CII:
State 3 −0.27 (−0.68 to 0.28) −0.05 (−0.53 to 0.44) 0.21 (−0.25 to 0.65) −0.26 (−0.60 to 0.11) −0.08 (−0.46 to 0.31) 0.18 (−0.21 to 0.53) −0.24 (−0.70 to 0.40) −0.04 (−0.58 to 0.54) 0.23 (−0.30 to 0.70)
MAX −0.13 (−0.61 to 042) 0.06 (−0.48 to 0.55) 0.26 (−0.23 to 067) −0.16 (−0.53 to 0.21) 0.01 (−0.41 to 0.37) 0.22 (−0.21 to 0.58) −0.10 (−0.60 to 0.40) 0.08 (−0.48 to 0.55) 0.30 (−0.24 to 0.71)
RCR-A 0.16 (−0.49 to 0.60) 0.29 (−0.41 to 0.71) 0.34 (−0.28 to 0.77) 0.35 (−0.16 to 0.71) 0.43 (−0.13 to 0.84) 0.42 (0.01–0.77) 0.29 (−0.36 to 0.74) 0.37 (−0.27 to 0.84) 0.37 (−0.15 to 0.79)
RCR-F 0.46 (−0.01 to 0.78) 0.49 (−0.02 to 0.80) 0.39 (−0.10 to 0.73) 0.56 (−0.10 to 0.90) 0.58 (−0.09 to 0.87) 0.46 (−0.07 to 0.80) 0.60 (0.21–0.84) 0.62 (0.24–0.88) 0.48 (0.08–0.80)

CII=complex 2, FCCP=carbonyl cyanide-4-(trifluoromethoxy) phenylhydrazone, HOMA-IR=homeostatic model of insulin resistance, MAX=FCCP-linked respiration, OXPHOS=oxidative phosphorylation capacity, RCR=respiratory control ratio. Bold type = p-value ≤ 0.05.

Respiration is measured as oxygen consumption rate (pmol/min/mg protein [platelets] and pmol/min/5 µg mitochondrial protein [left vastus and cardiac tissues]).

Reserve capacity is calculated as the difference between MAX and Basal respiration.

RCRs are calculated as ADP-stimulated State 3 respiration divided by oligomycin-linked respiration (RCR-A) and by MAX respiration divided by oligomycin-linked respiration (RCR-F).

In isolated mitochondrial preparations, CII respiration was measured using succinate and rotenone as substrates and using ADP, oligomycin, and FCCP injections to measure State 3, oligomycin, and MAX respiration, respectively.

N=16.