Qualitative alteration of peripheral motor system begins prior to appearance of typical sarcopenia syndrome in middle-aged rats

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Tamaki, Tetsuro ^a   Hirata, Maki ^a   Uchiyama, Yoshiyasu ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axon loss; Demyelination; Motor neuron pool; Muscle shortening relaxation velocity; Neuromuscular junction; Stretch reflex; Synaptic depression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SYSTEM; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONE; MUSCLE TWITCH; NERVE FIBER; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; RAT; SARCOPENIA; SCIATIC NERVE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84909630805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00296     Document Type: Article

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