Role of nitric oxide in muscle regeneration following eccentric muscle contractions in rat skeletal muscle

Table 1 Area percentage of inflammation and regeneration muscle fibers

	Control	1 day	3 days	7 days
Inflammation fibers area (%)
ECC/−l-NAME	0.0 ± 0.0	5.2 ± 2.3	43.1 ± 8.5**	0.0 ± 0.0
ECC/+l-NAME	0.0 ± 0.0	6.1 ± 1.5	35.7 ± 7.4**	0.0 ± 0.0
Regeneration fibers area (%)
ECC/−l-NAME	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	6.5 ± 2.3*
ECC/+l-NAME	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	3.7 ± 1.4

Control contralateral (left) no-ECC muscle. Values represent mean ± SEM
* p < 0.05, significantly different from ECC/+l-NAME; ** p < 0.01, significantly different from control

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