Table 1

Spearman correlations between the gene expression of muscle markers in the skeletal muscle (gastrocnemius) and the expression of leptin/IL-6 in both epididymal adipose tissue and skeletal muscle

Gastrocnemius	Fat mass %		Epididymal adipose tissue				Gastrocnemius muscle
	Fat mass %		Leptin		IL-6		Leptin		IL-6
	R	P	R	P	R	P	R	P	R	P
MyoD	−0.729	0.001	−0.747	0.001	−0.708	0.001	−0.618	0.006	0.427	0.051
MyoG	−0.279	0.147	−0.053	0.424	−0.030	0.454	−0.053	0.424	0.009	0.489
β-Actin	−0.415	0.056	−0.788	0.000	−0.720	0.001	−0.435	0.047	0.271	0.155
Titin	−0.5357	0.0396	−0.4107	0.1283	−0.6452	0.0094	−0.3429	0.2109	0.1679	0.5499
IGF-II	−0.577	0.011	−0.744	0.001	−0.664	0.003	−0.588	0.009	0.453	0.040
IGFBP-5	−0.6264	0.0165	−0.6791	0.0076	−0.6865	0.0067	−0.5121	0.0612	0.4549	0.1022
PGC-1α	0.068	0.410	0.152	0.303	0.213	0.230	0.020	0.476	0.160	0.292
PGC-1β	−0.350	0.101	−0.646	0.006	−0.459	0.042	−0.332	0.113	0.418	0.061

The mice used were 20 weeks old (n = 16). Significant correlations appear in boldface.