Effect of 10 days of bed rest on skeletal muscle in healthy older adults [8]

JAMA

Volumn 297, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 1772-1774

  Kortebein, Patrick ^a   Ferrando, Arny ^a   Lombeida, Juan ^a   Wolfe, Robert ^a   Evans, William J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b CENTRAL ARKANSAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BED REST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LEG MUSCLE; LETTER; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NITROGEN BALANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DIET; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; URINALYSIS;

EID: 34247534568     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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