Growth hormone supplementation increases skeletal muscle mass of old male Fischer 344/Brown Norway rats

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1996, Pages

  Cartee, Gregory D ^a   Bohn, Erika E ^a   Gibson, Brian T ^b   Farrar, Roger P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; MUSCLE PROTEIN;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIDIDYMIS FAT; HEART WEIGHT; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; KIDNEY MASS; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPLEEN WEIGHT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0029865510     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/51A.3.B214     Document Type: Article

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