Skeletal muscle fatigue and physical endurance of young and old mice

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1729-1739

  Pagala, Murali K ^a   Ravindran, Kadirimangalam ^a   Namba, Tatsuji ^a,b   Grob, David ^a,b  

^a MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Endurance; Fatigue; Mice; Skeletal muscle; Swimming; Treadmill

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ENDURANCE; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SWIMMING;

AGING; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; RUNNING; SWIMMING;

EID: 0031760375     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199812)21:12<1729::AID-MUS16>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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