Non‐technical summary During exercise, skeletal muscle performance depends in great
part on the use of aerobic metabolism to supply the energetic demand of contractions …

Human skeletal muscle health is important for quality of life and several chronic diseases,
including type II diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Skeletal muscle is a tissue widely used …

Key points Skeletal muscle energy requirements increase at birth but little is known
regarding the development of mitochondria that provide most of the cellular energy as ATP …

Capture myopathy (CM), which is associated with the capture and translocation of wildlife, is
a life-threatening condition that causes noteworthy morbidity and mortality in captured …

Some wild antelopes are fast sprinters and more resistant to fatigue than others. This study
therefore investigated two wild antelope species to better understand their reported …

Muscle fiber type, fiber cross-sectional area (CSA), enzyme activities (citrate synthase (CS),
3-hydroxyacetyl Co A dehydrogenase (3HAD), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and …

Exercise is associated with increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) as
metabolism is upregulated to fuel muscle activity. If antioxidant systems become …

The cheetah is considered the fastest land animal, but studies on their skeletal muscle
properties are scarce. Vastus lateralis biopsies, obtained from male and female cheetahs as …

Lion (Panthera leo) and caracal (Caracal caracal) skeletal muscle samples from Vastus
lateralis, Longissimus dorsi and Gluteus medius were analyzed for fiber type and citrate …

Sloths exhibit almost obligatory suspensory locomotion and posture. These behaviors
require both strength and fatigue resistance, although we previously found muscle fiber type …