What is the cause of the ageing atrophy?. Total number, size and proportion of different fiber types studied in whole vastus lateralis muscle from 15- to 83-year-old men

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 84, Issue 2-3, 1988, Pages 275-294

  Lexell, Jan ^a   Taylor, Charles C ^b   Sjöström, Michael ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Biopsy; Histocytochemistry; Microscopy; Muscles; Muscular atrophy

Indexed keywords

AGE; ATROPHY; AUTOPSY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CELL COUNT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MUSCLES; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; THIGH;

EID: 0023856536     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-510X(88)90132-3     Document Type: Article

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