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

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Table 5

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	0.123	39.23	42.15	60.32	90,45	131.33	141.44
		SD	0.015	7.84	5.22	15.30	8,31	16.95	13.37
	AX	MEAN	0.018	6.43	7.38	8.99	15,71	17.07	17.51
		SD	0.003	0.65	0.52	0.89	1,61	1.01	0.90
	CON/MG	MEAN	0.106	37.05	51.00	71.75	99,32	130.48	138.02
		SD	0.012	6.67	8.28	8.00	9,95	10.00	7.83
	AX/MG	MEAN	0.095	31.46	43.31	73.91	105,28	124.88	133.31
		SD	0.010	4.41	6.27	9.73	9,98	11.62	10.60
P28	CON	MEAN	0.029	8.45	10.37	16.45	23,42	27.34	29.07
		SD	0.005	0.86	1.90	4.12	2,91	4.20	3.54
	AX	MEAN	0.019	9.24	10.06	11.94	16,16	18.25	19.61
		SD	0.002	4.84	5.07	5.45	9,31	10.74	11.01
	CON/MG	MEAN	0.018	6.04	9.35	13.39	18,93	20.56	21.25
		SD	0.004	1.91	2.69	2.56	1,28	3.19	3.01
	AX/MG	MEAN	0.014	5.37	7.09	7.81	14,11	18.73	19.35
		SD	0.002	0.77	0.95	0.51	1,97	3.86	3.57
P21	CON	MEAN	0.017	10.69	11.83	16.75	27,08	31.10	30.84
		SD	0.002	1.42	1.90	2.24	3,30	4.67	4.54
	AX	MEAN	0.016	10.73	11.23	15.22	21,99	23.85	23.88
		SD	0.001	1.22	2.49	1.90	2,91	2.60	1.75
	CON/MG	MEAN	0.014	5.89	7.69	10.83	19,70	23.64	23.24
		SD	0.002	1.69	2.39	3.22	5,90	9.27	8.69
	AX/MG	MEAN	0.010	5.26	6.42	12.22	14,89	16.94	17.54
		SD	0.003	1.25	2.32	3.51	4,00	4.56	4.65
P14	CON	MEAN	0.006	4.01	6.16	7.32	9,14	10.33	10.46
		SD	0.001	1.62	1.20	1.48	1,96	2.10	2.02
	AX	MEAN	0.005	3.35	5.72	6.79	7,59	8.18	8.35
		SD	0.001	0.61	0.88	0.57	0,32	0.57	0.60
	CON/MG	MEAN	0.006	3.61	4.16	6.37	9,16	11.15	11.35
		SD	0.002	0.86	1.16	3.10	5,05	4.85	4.62
	AX/MG	MEAN	0.005	3.18	3.53	5.98	7,97	9.79	10.06
		SD	0.000	0.52	0.54	1.12	1,54	2.71	2.94

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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