Taking musculoskeletal aging out of the bench: Do we finally understand frailty?

Molecular Aspects of Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 141-143

  Duque, Gustavo ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTE; AGING; BONE MASS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MESENCHYME; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; NEUROENDOCRINE DISEASE; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 16244386557     PISSN: 00982997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2005.01.001     Document Type: Editorial

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