Age-related loss of muscle fibres is highly variable amongst mouse skeletal muscles

Biogerontology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 157-167

  Sheard, Philip W ^a   Anderson, Ross D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Cell death; Sarcopenia; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

DYSTROPHIN;

AGED; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TISSUE SECTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; DYSTROPHIN; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE; SARCOPENIA;

EID: 84861457448     PISSN: 13895729     EISSN: 15736768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10522-011-9365-0     Document Type: Article

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