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These researchers determined the fiber composition from the gastrocnemius muscle (the muscle of the calf of the leg) of 14 elite male long distance runners, 18 good (but not world-class) male long distance runners, and 19 untrained men.
This technique revealed modest VEGF signal differences between functional regions of the rat gastrocnemius that differed in oxidative capacity, with oxidative muscle regions showing higher signal after both electrical stimulation and treadmill running.
An additional four rats provided a left gastrocnemius for in situ hybridization, histochemistry, and immunohistochemistry.
For the 6 rats run on the treadmill, the left gastrocnemius (both heads combined) was removed for RNA isolation, frozen in liquid nitrogen, and stored at -80°C.
In these same rats the right gastrocnemius was removed for in situ hybridization and fiber type determinations.