Electrical stimulation (ES) counteracts muscle decline in seniors

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  Kern, Helmut ^a,b   Barberi, Laura ^c   Löfler, Stefan ^b   Sbardella, Simona ^c   Burggraf, Samantha ^b   Fruhmann, Hannah ^b   Carraro, Ugo ^b   Mosole, Simone ^b   Sarabon, Nejc ^d   Vogelauer, Michael ^a   Mayer, Winfried ^e   Krenn, Matthias ^e   Cvecka, Jan ^f   Romanello, Vanina ^g   Pietrangelo, Laura ^h   Protasi, Feliciano ^h   Sandri, Marco ^g   Zampieri, Sandra ^b,i   Musaro, Antonio ^c,j  

^a WILHELMINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^b LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^g VENETIAN INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^j ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Aging; Electrical stimulation; Extracellular matrix; Igf 1; Microrna; Murf1; Muscle atrophy; Muscle performance; Satellite cells

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MUSCLE RING FINGER 1 PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXERCISE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MYOFIBROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; SATELLITE CELL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPORT; TORQUE; TRAINING; UPREGULATION;

EID: 84904606429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00189     Document Type: Article

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