Influence of age and treadmill running on motor performance in rats

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 119-130

  Dorner, Heinrich ^a   Stadick, Jürgen ^a   Platt, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Motor performance of aging rats; Treadmill running

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

EID: 0030984923     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4943(96)00777-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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