Magnesium administration provokes motor unit survival, after sciatic nerve injury in neonatal rats

Gougoulias, N; Hatzisotiriou, A; Kapoukranidou, D; Albani, M

doi:10.1186/1471-2474-5-33

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Table 4

From: Magnesium administration provokes motor unit survival, after sciatic nerve injury in neonatal rats

AGE	Condition		Muscle Weight	Single Twitch	TET-10	TET-20	TET-40	TET-80	TET-100
ADULTS	CON	MEAN	0.163	67.74	92.83	117.50	172.33	212.17	259.50
		SD	0.04	11.52	1.57	18.12	1.53	17.46	22.04
	AX	MEAN	0.017	3.08	2.87	3.16	6.39	7.67	8.54
		SD	0.003	0.28	0.53	0.49	0.72	0.69	0.60
	CON/MG	MEAN	0.151	78.57	89.84	101.09	171.40	214.87	245.69
		SD	0.008	9.80	10.60	11.12	1.39	17.92	22.69
	AX/MG	MEAN	0.059	12.84	13.06	15.79	19.40	27.76	37.31
		SD	0.007	0.71	0.97	1.41	1.34	2.39	4.55
P28	CON	MEAN	0.036	16.79	17.79	25.27	37.43	49.27	50.30
		SD	0.004	2.74	2.38	2.87	5.51	5.22	5.23
	AX	MEAN	0.016	3.12	3.56	5.46	8.13	9.42	9.66
		SD	0.003	1.10	1.19	2.34	2.72	2.80	2.81
	CON/MG	MEAN	0.016	13.39	14.08	21.90	28.24	31.29	31.61
		SD	0.001	4.94	5.32	8.73	10.16	9.49	9.20
	AX/MG	MEAN	0.010	4.07	4.29	7.06	8.55	11.36	11.39
		SD	0.001	1.11	0.95	2.11	1.95	1.09	1.07
P21	CON	MEAN	0.021	9.09	9.64	13.98	19.00	21.75	21.65
		SD	0.006	2.01	2.11	2.85	6.64	7.87	8.57
	AX	MEAN	0.010	1.80	1.98	2.87	4.42	4.88	4.98
		SD	0.001	1.23	1.41	2.28	3.17	3.86	3.88
	CON/MG	MEAN	0.016	6.87	8.45	13.76	17.30	19.89	20.13
		SD	0.005	2.97	4.85	7.54	9.76	12.12	13.24
	AX/MG	MEAN	0.008	3.39	3.72	6.47	8.42	9.42	9.47
		SD	0.002	1.24	1.34	2.47	2.43	2.85	2.90
P14	CON	MEAN	0.009	4.02	5.89	7.37	9.31	10.53	10.95
		SD	0003	1.90	2.46	2.56	2.88	3.55	4.00
	AX	MEAN	0.006	3.48	4.94	7.12	8.86	10.07	10.04
		SD	0.003	0.52	1.17	1.58	1.22	1.44	1.25
	CON/MG	MEAN	0.007	4.41	4.67	6.54	8.79	9.63	9.94
		SD	0.002	0.83	0.87	0.73	2.10	2.59	2.59
	AX/MG	MEAN	0.005	2.85	4.76	5.92	8.15	7.63	7.65
		SD	0.001	0.85	1.72	1.74	1.31	2.55	2.52

All values are presented in grams. TET-10, -20, -40, -80, -100, means Tetanic Twitch Tension in 10, 20, 40, 80, 100 Hz, respectively.

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