Aging affects different human muscles in various ways. An image analysis of the histomorphometric characteristics of fiber types in human masseter and vastus lateralis muscles from young adults and the very old

Histology and Histopathology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 61-71

  Kirkeby, Svend ^a   Garbarsch, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aging; Histomorphometry; Human; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MYOSIN ANTIBODY; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MASSETER MUSCLE; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; RAT; SOLEUS MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; HUMANS; MASSETER MUSCLE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOFIBRILS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033985418     PISSN: 02133911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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