Insights into age-related locomotor declines from studies of insects

Ageing Research Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-39

  Ridgel, Angela L ^a   Ritzmann, Roy E ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cockroach; Fruitfly; Locomotion; Walking

Indexed keywords

AGING; BEHAVIOR; CLIMBING; INSECT; INSECT CELL; LOCOMOTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RIGHTING REFLEX; VERTEBRATE; WALKING;

ANIMALIA; BLATTARIA; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 11144283684     PISSN: 15681637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2004.08.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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