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Heritability of treadmill running endurance in rats.
The American journal of physiology - 1 Nov 1998
Koch L G, Meredith T A, Fraker T D, Metting P J, Britton S L
Abstract excerpt
Treadmill running was evaluated as a phenotype for selective breeding for high- and low-endurance performance from a starting population of 18 male and 24 female outbred Sprague-Dawley rats. Each rat was exercised to exhaustion once per day for 5 consecutive days. The treadmill was set at a constant 15 degrees slope, and the initial velocity of 10 m/min was increased by 1 m/min every 2 min. The total distance run...
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