Training influence on age-dependent changes in the gait of rats

Gerontology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 7-13

  Dorner, Heinrich ^a   Otte, Peter ^a   Platt, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Gait analysis; Rats; Treadmill running

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAIT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STANDING; TRAINING; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

AGING; ANIMALS; GAIT; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RUNNING;

EID: 13344281083     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: 14230003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000213764     Document Type: Article

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