The age-related motor disability: Underlying mechanisms in skeletal muscle at the motor unit, cellular and molecular level

Acta Physiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 27-29

  Larsson, L ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Contractile speed; In vitro motility; Myosin; Skeletal muscle; Skinned fibres

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

EID: 0031812237     PISSN: 00016772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-201x.1998.00375.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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