Discrepancies between Skinned Single Muscle Fibres and Whole Thigh Muscle Function Characteristics in Young and Elderly Human Subjects

Table 2

values of multilevel analysis for correlated single muscle fiber with each subject group.

Fiber type	Classification	CSA	SF (mN/mm^2)	Vo (FL/s)	F (mN)
I	Age	0.774	0.569	0.528	0.612
	Gender	0.179	0.254	0.059	0.168
IIa	Age	0.101	0.938	0.683	0.146
	Gender	0.797	0.759	0.221	0.624
I/II hybrid	Age	0.753	0.916	0.677	0.928
	Gender	0.490	0.702	0.166	0.453

One of the multilevel analyses, linear mixed model, was used for showing the representativeness of each fiber subtype for each subject group.
Total fiber number = 212. Values are estimated as means ± SD. CSA = cross-sectional area, SF = specific force, Vo = maximum shortening velocity,
F = maximal contractile force.