Skeletal muscle response to short endurance training in heart transplant recipients
Eliane Lampert, MD*,
Bertrand Mettauer, MD
,
Hans Hoppeler, MD
,
Anne Charloux, MD*,
Arnaud Charpentier, MD
and
Jean Lonsdorfer, MD*
* Service des Explorations Fonctionnelles Respiratoires et de lExercice, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Service des Explorations Fonctionnelles Cardiovasculaires et Service de Chirurgie Cardiovasculaire, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Department of Anatomy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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Figure 1 Total volume of mitochondria and total capillary length in the quadriceps muscle of C and HTR patients before and after a 6-week training program. Open bars = pretraining; hatched bars = post-training. *p < 0.05 for comparisons before and after training within each group. #p < 0.05 for comparisons between C and HTR patients.
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