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Normal mammalian skeletal muscle and its phenotypic plasticity

Hans Hoppeler^* and Martin Flück

Department of Anatomy, University of Bern, Bühlstrasse 26, CH-3000 Bern 9, Switzerland

View larger version (18K): [in a new window]   Fig. 1. Allometric plot of muscle mass (A) and fibre cross-sectional area (B) for the species reported in Table 1. a(f), mean fibre cross-sectional area; Mb, body mass; Mm, muscle mass.

View larger version (25K): [in a new window]   Fig. 2. Allometric plots of O2max and total volume of mitochondria, V(mt), for the species reported in Table 1. V(mt) was calculated by multiplying the muscle mass by the volume density of mitochondria and the density of muscle tissue (1.06g ml-1). Mb, body mass.

View larger version (17K): [in a new window]   Fig. 3. Allometric plot of the total volume of lipid V(li) in skeletal muscle for the species reported in Table 1. Mb, body mass.