Age-Associated Changes in Motor Unit Physiology: Observations From the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1237-1240

  Ling, Shari M ^a   Conwit, Robin A ^b   Ferrucci, Luigi ^a   Metter, E Jeffrey ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b National Institute of Neurological Disorders   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Muscles; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE FUNCTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SURFACE PROPERTY; UNITED STATES; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BALTIMORE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 67649395595     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2008.09.565     Document Type: Article

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