Lipophilic but not hydrophilic statin therapy improves cardiodynamics without affecting skeletal muscle morphology or function in geriatric Wistar rats

• Irena A. Rebalka ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: rebalka@mcmaster.ca

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4732-5473

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• Razan Alshamali,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Tiffany L. vanLieshout,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Molly A. Gingrich,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Matthew R. Marlatt,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Vladimir Ljubicic,

  Roles Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Jeremy A. Simpson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Thomas J. Hawke

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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