The Effects of Sarcopenia on Muscles with Different Recruitment Patterns and Myofiber Profiles

Current Aging Science

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 266-272

  Deschenes, Michael R ^a   Gaertner, Jennifer R ^a   O'Reilly, Shaelyn ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Atrophy; EDL; Immunohistochemistry; Plantaris; Senescence; Soleus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; FROZEN SECTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; NONHUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SARCOPENIA; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SLOW MUSCLE FIBER; SOLEUS MUSCLE; YOUNG ADULT;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; MALE; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE FIBERS, SLOW-TWITCH; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SARCOPENIA;

EID: 84891791708     PISSN: 18746098     EISSN: 18746128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/18746098113066660035     Document Type: Article

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