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Figure 3

From: Dietary supplementation with a specific combination of high protein, leucine, and fish oil improves muscle function and daily activity in tumour-bearing cachectic mice

Figure 3

The effect of the specific nutritional combination on skeletal muscle function during exercise (ex vivo experiment B). CON=mice receiving control diet B, TB-CON=tumour-bearing mice receiving control diet B, TB-SNC=tumour-bearing receiving the specific nutritional combination. Data as means±s.e.m.; data were significantly different from TB-CON when P<0.05, k=2, α=10%). (A) Maximal contraction force (both curves are significantly different from TB-CON till repeat 70). (B) Maximal contraction force corrected for muscle mass (CON is significantly different from TB-CON for repeats 30–50; TB-SNC not significant different from TB-CON). (C) Maximal contraction velocity (both curves significantly different from TB-CON till repeat 70). (D) Maximal contraction velocity corrected for muscle mass (CON significantly different from TB-CON for the first 30 repeats (except for repeat 5 (P=0.06)); TB-SNC significantly different from TB-CON for the first 10 repeats).

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