Short-term muscle disuse atrophy is not associated with increased intramuscular lipid deposition or a decline in the maximal activity of key mitochondrial enzymes in young and older males

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 61, Issue , 2015, Pages 76-83

  Wall, Benjamin T ^a   Dirks, Marlou L ^a   Snijders, Tim ^a   Stephens, Francis B ^b   Senden, Joan M G ^a   Verscheijden, Marie Louise ^a   van Loon, Luc J C ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Disuse; Immobilization; Lipids; Oxidative capacity; Sarcopenia; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA COACTIVATOR 1ALPHA; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; PPARGC1A PROTEIN, HUMAN; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE COMPLEX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADULT; AEROBIC METABOLISM; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; INTRAMYOCELLULAR TRIACYLGLYCEROL CONTENT; LIPID STORAGE; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; METABOLIC REGULATION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE DISUSE ATROPHY; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE OXIDATIVE CAPACITY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; SKELETAL MUSCLE; AGING; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; MUSCLE MITOCHONDRION; MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BODY COMPOSITION; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA, MUSCLE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE COMPLEX; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 84913553857     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: 18736815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2014.11.019     Document Type: Article

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