Greater capillary-fiber interface per fiber mitochondrial volume in skeletal muscles of old rats

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 281-289

  Mathieu Costello, O ^a,b   Ju, Y ^a   Trejo Morales, M ^a   Cui, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary anisotropy; Morphometry; Sarcopenia; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAPILLARY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FAST MUSCLE; GEOMETRY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SLOW MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGING; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ANIMALS; CAPILLARIES; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 21644488842     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00750.2004     Document Type: Article

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