The effects of pre-habilitative conditioning on unloading-induced adaptations in young and aged neuromuscular systems

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 687-694

  Deschenes, Michael R ^a   Sherman, E Grace ^a   Glass, Emily K ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Disuse; Myofiber; Old; Synapse; Unweighting

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR;

ADAPTATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN ATROPHY; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOFLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMOBILIZATION; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PREHABILITATIVE CONDITIONING; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; HINDLIMB SUSPENSION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

RATTUS;

EID: 84864918646     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: 18736815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2012.06.005     Document Type: Article

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