Skeletal muscle function and hypertrophy are diminished in old age

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 339-347

  Degens, Hans ^a   Alway, Stephen E ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Fatigue; Muscle hypertrophy; Myosin heavy chain; Specific tension

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FATIGUE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE TWITCH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NONHUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 0037373085     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.10314     Document Type: Article

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