Skeletal muscle atrophy during short-term disuse: Implications for age-related sarcopenia

Ageing Research Reviews

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 898-906

  Wall, Benjamin T ^a   Dirks, Marlou L ^a   Van Loon, Luc J C ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bed rest; Disuse atrophy; Immobilization; Protein turnover; Sarcopenia; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN; PROTEASOME; PROTEIN KINASE; UBIQUITIN;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXERCISE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LEVEL; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TISSUE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN HOMEOSTASIS; PROTEIN INTAKE; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SARCOPENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE ATROPHY; TURNOVER TIME; UBIQUITINATION; UPREGULATION;

BED-REST; DISUSE ATROPHY; IMMOBILIZATION; PROTEIN TURNOVER; SARCOPENIA; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

AGED; AGING; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; MUSCULAR DISORDERS, ATROPHIC; SARCOPENIA;

EID: 84883290555     PISSN: 15681637     EISSN: 18729649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2013.07.003     Document Type: Review

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