Research images

  • Nov. 5, 2014

    Microscopy images showing cross sections of muscle fibers with (right) and whiteout (lest) anabolic steroids. 

  • Nov. 5, 2014

    Quantifications of cross sectional area. Muscles treated with steroids 13 weeks earlier (red) grew significantly faster that sham-treated animals (blue) when subjected to overload of the muscle.

  • Nov. 5, 2014

    Muscle fibers are long and cylindrical and the nuclei are situated on the surface of the fiber.

  • Nov. 5, 2014

    Photo of muscle fibres (blue) with cell nuclei (green).

  • Nov. 5, 2014

    Big muscle cells (below) contain more nuclei than do small muscle cells (above).