Repeatability of exercise‐induced changes in mRNA expression and technical considerations for qPCR analysis in human skeletal muscle

What is the central question of this study? Are individual changes in exercise‐induced mRNA expression repeatable (i.e. representative of the true response to exercise rather than random error)? What is the main finding and its importance? Exercise‐induced changes in mRNA expression are not repeatable even under identical experimental conditions, thereby challenging the use of mRNA expression as a biomarker of adaptive potential and/or individual responsiveness to exercise.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Experimental Physiology

• Publication date

  2019-02-10

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1113/EP087401PMID 30657617
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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