Exercise-Induced Changes in Caveolin-1, Depletion of Mitochondrial Cholesterol, and the Inhibition of Mitochondrial Swelling in Rat Skeletal Muscle but Not in the Liver

Figure 2

Mitochondrial swelling in controlled and exercised animals. The calcium chloride-induced mitochondrial swelling was spectrophotometrically assessed in the quadriceps (a) and liver (b) crude mitochondria. The data are presented as the means ± SE. There was a significant difference between the E (exercise) versus C (control) in the quadriceps mitochondria versus the control rats ( in each group).

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