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. 2018 Jan 11;13(1):e0191039. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0191039

Table 2. Type I and II muscle fibres cross-sectional area (fCSA), myonuclear number and domain size at the first (T1), third (T2) and tenth (T3) weeks of resistance training.

Fibres T1 T2 T3
fCSA per fibre (μm2) Type I 4175 ± 553 4024 ± 727 4424 ± 582
Type II 4643 ± 390 4537 ± 789 5304 ± 695 *
Myonuclear number per fibre Type I 2.9 ± 0.4 3.1 ± 0.7 2.7 ± 0.4
Type II 3.2 ± 0.5 3.3 ± 0.8 3.2 ± 0.8
Myonuclear domain size per fibre (μm2) Type I 1505 ± 184 1356 ± 393 1578 ± 265
Type II 1476 ± 350 1391 ± 373 1621 ± 318

Values are expressed as mean ± standard deviation.

*Significantly different from T1 (P = 0.025) and T2 (P = 0.035).