| dc.contributor.author | Kisia, S. M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hughes*, G. M. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-13T11:34:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-06-13T11:34:28Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006-01 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Fish Biology Volume 40, Issue 1, pages 97–106, January 1992 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8649.1992.tb02557.x/abstract | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/32984 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Measurements of muscle dimensions that affect respiration in relation to body weight were carried out in a tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus. The fish used in all measurements weighed 0.65–812.3 g. The data were analysed with respect to body weight using logarithmic transformations (log Y=log a+blog W).
The slopes (b) of the log/log regression lines for weight of body trunk red muscle, average cross-sectional area of muscle fibre, average number of capillaries in direct contact with a muscle fibre, average capillary contact length with a fibre as a fraction of average fibre circumference and number of capillaries mm2 of fibre cross-sectional area [NA(cƒ)] were 1.16, 0.221, 0.084, 0.015, and −0.137 respectively.
These results show that there is an increase in muscle cross-sectional fibre area and number of capillaries in contact with muscle fibres whereas number of capillaries supplying a unit area of muscle fibre decreases during development. There is development of new capillaries with increase in cross-sectional area of red muscle fibres. | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Univesity of Nairobi | en |
| dc.subject | red muscle;capillaries; | en |
| dc.title | Red muscle fibre and capillary dimensions in different sizes of a tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (Trewavas) | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| local.publisher | Department of Medicine | en |
