Skeletal Muscle Fatigue in Old Age: Whose Advantage?

Overview

Journal Exerc Sport Sci Rev

Specialty Orthopedics

Date 2008 Dec 23

PMID 19098518

Citations 46

Authors

Jane A Kent-Braun

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Abstract

The results of recent studies indicate that in healthy men and women aged beyond approximately 65 years, the energy-producing pathways in skeletal muscle may combine with changes in motor unit behavior and muscle contractile properties to provide a unique environment for resisting muscle fatigue under some conditions.

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