Motor unit changes seen with skeletal muscle sarcopenia in oldest old rats

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 657-665

  Kung, Theodore A ^a   Cederna, Paul S ^a   Van Der Meulen, Jack H ^b   Urbanchek, Melanie G ^a   Kuzon, William M ^a   Faulkner, John A ^b  

^a Section of Plastic Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Innervation ratio; Motor unit; Sarcopenia Aging

Indexed keywords

AGING; AGING.; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BROWN NORWAY RAT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; INNERVATION; INNERVATION RATIO; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SARCOPENIA; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

AGING.; INNERVATION RATIO; MOTOR UNIT; SARCOPENIA;

AGING; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; SARCOPENIA;

EID: 84901036264     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: 1758535X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glt135     Document Type: Article

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