title: [The effect of endurance training on the neovascularization of skeletal musculature].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To quantify the capillaries in the skeletal muscular tissue of mice with induced peripheral arterial insufficiency, after endurance training.
  
  
  METHODS
  It was used Wistar mice in 70 days age range, subjected to the total occlusion of right femoral artery. The animals were divided into two groups: sedentary group (SG; n = 05), subjected to activities in the cage; and trained group (TG; n = 05), subjected to an endurance training in cycle ergometer twice a day 17m/min, by 5 minutes, 5 days per week during 10 weeks. The analysis was realized by the histologic observation of the vastus medialis muscle of injured member.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The average number of capillaries in the muscular tissue was greater in TG (5,2 +/- 0,83) than in SG (1,6 +/- 1,14) (p < 0,05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In animals with induction of peripheral arterial insufficiency, the endurance training provides a process of muscular adaptation which is observed by the increase in the number of capillaries of animals subjected to this kind of training.
authors.affiliation: UFPE, Brazil. celina@fir.br
authors.forename: Celina Cordeiro
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: de Carvalho
authors.forename: Danielle Augusta
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: de Sá Xerita Maux
authors.forename: Tetsuo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tashiro
authors.forename: Sílvia Regina Arruda
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: de Moraes
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002196:Capillaries; D008297:Male; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000098:blood supply*; D018919:Neovascularization, Physiologic / Q000502:physiology*; D010805:Physical Conditioning, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D010807:Physical Endurance / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013997:Time Factors