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J Physiol Vol 270, Issue 3 pp 677-690
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Capillary supply of the quadriceps femoris muscle of man: adaptive response to exercise

 Per Andersen and Jan Henriksson

1. Five subjects trained for 8 weeks on a bicycle ergometer for an average of 40 min/day, four times a week at a work load requiring 80% of the maximal oxygen uptake (VO2 max.). VO2 max. determinations were performed, and muscle biopsies from the quadriceps femoris muscle (vastus lateralis) were taken before, as well as repeatedly during, the training period. The muscle biopsies were histochemically stained for fibre-types (myofibrillar ATPase) and capillaries (amylase-PAS method), and analysed biochemically for succinate dehydrogenase and cytochrome oxidase activities.

2. The training programme resulted in a 16% increase in VO2 max., a 20% increase in capillary density, a 20% increase in mean fibre area, and an approximately 40% increase in the activities of succinate dehydrogenase and cytochrome oxidase.

3. The capillary supply to type I, IIA and IIB fibres, expressed as the mean number of capillaries in contact with each fibre-type, relative to fibre-type area, increased equally.

4. The present study shows that endurance training constitutes a powerful stimulus for capillary proliferation in human skeletal muscle.




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