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

Table 1

General characteristics of subjects.

	Ages (year)	Height (cm)	Weight (kg)
YM ()	29.25 ± 4.65	176.84 ± 2.52	75.28 ± 9.15
OM ()	71.45 ± 2.94	164.10 ± 5.18	68.24 ± 6.51
YW ()	29.64 ± 4.88	160.35 ± 4.57	56.79 ± 10.64
OW ()	67.29 ± 1.70	155.69 ± 6.10	58.01 ± 9.71

Values are presented as means ± standard deviation. YM = young men, OM = old men, YW = young women, OW = old women.