FIG. 2.

Comparison of the body weight and functional baseline parameters among treatment groups. (A) Body weights of study animals reveal normal healthy weight gain in all treatment groups over the course of 8 weeks and/or 12 weeks. (B) Graphical comparison illustrating the equivalence of the mean baseline contraction force resulting from peroneal nerve stimulation and measured with a footplate force transducer in all treatment groups. In all cases, individual responses are normalized to their body weight. Data are presented as mean ± SEM. No statistical differences were observed by using a two-way and one-way ANOVA. Group sample sizes are listed in parentheses. ANOVA, analysis of variance; SEM, standard error of the mean. Color images available online at www.liebertpub.com/tea