Age effect on transcript levels and synthesis rate of muscle MHC and response to resistance exercise

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 280, Issue 2 43-2, 2001, Pages

  Balagopal, Prabhakaran ^a,c   Schimke, Jill Coenen ^a   Ades, Philip ^b   Adey, Deborah ^a,d   Nair, K Sreekumaran ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^c NEMOURS CHILDREN S CLINIC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Messenger ribonucleic acid; Muscle; Myosin heavy chain; Protein synthesis

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TRAINING;

EID: 0034996561     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.2001.280.2.e203     Document Type: Article

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