Muscle distribution: Variations with body weight, gender, and age

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 49, Issue 5-6, 1998, Pages 733-734

  Gallagher, Dympna ^a   Heymsfield, Steven B ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; SKELETAL MUSCLE DISTRIBUTION;

MUSCLE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CONFERENCE PAPER; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE MASS; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0032079421     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(97)00096-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

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2. McCarter, R. (1978) Effects of age on contraction of mammalian skeletal muscle. In Aging in Muscle, eds G. Kaldor and W. J. DiBattista, Vol. 6. Raven Press, New York.