Carnosine, taurine and enzyme activities of human skeletal muscle fibres from elderly subjects with osteoarthritis and young moderately active subjects

Biogerontology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 129-137

  Tallon, Mark J ^a   Harris, Roger C ^a   Maffulli, Nicola ^b   Tarnopolsky, Mark A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ageing; Buffering; Carnosine; Muscle; Osteoarthritis

Indexed keywords

BETA ALANINE; CARNOSINE; CITRATE SYNTHASE; GLYCOGEN PHOSPHORYLASE; HISTIDINE; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; TAURINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENERVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FREEZING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MALE; MEAT; MUSCLE BIOPSY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITTING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BETA-ALANINE; CARNOSINE; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; DOWN-REGULATION; GLYCOGEN PHOSPHORYLASE; HISTIDINE; HUMANS; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE FIBERS, SLOW-TWITCH; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; TAURINE;

EID: 33947683803     PISSN: 13895729     EISSN: 15736768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10522-006-9038-6     Document Type: Article

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