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. 2022 May 5;12:7375. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-10801-z

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Histological sections of rat rectus abdominis muscle (RAM), obtained from CellSens Dimension (Olympus Corporation®) Version 1.16 image analysis software—(https://www.olympus-lifescience.com/en/software/cellsens/). (A) RAM samples were taken from non-diabetic sedentary (NDsed), non-diabetic exercised (NDex), diabetic sedentary (Dsed) and diabetic exercised (Dex) rats as described in “Materials and methods”. RAM samples were stained with picrosirius red and immunohistochemistry against myosin heavy chain of slow and fast RAM fibers. (B) Picrosirius red staining for total muscle area, fiber area, and fiber diameter in RAM samples as in (A). (C) Immunohistochemistry for total slow-twitch fiber area,slow-twitch fiber area, and slow-twitch fiber diameter as in (A). (D) Immunohistochemistry for total fast-twitch fiber area,fast-twitch fiber area, and fast-twitch fiber diameter as in (A). Values are means ± S.D. (n = 5 animals/group. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001 and ****p < 0.0001. Scale bar: 50 µm. Magnification: ×20.