Complexity of age-related change in skeletal muscle

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1996, Pages

  Brown, Marybeth ^a   Hasser, Eileen M ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FORCE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE MASS; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TENSION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029981663     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/51A.2.B117     Document Type: Article

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