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Skeletal muscle and aging.
Frontiers in bioscience : a journal and virtual library - 1 Jan 2001
Navarro A, López-Cepero J M, Sánchez del Pino M J
Abstract excerpt
Age-related changes in muscle mass (sarcopenia) and functional properties are the result of a very complex hierarchical system of basic cell aging processes and cell adaptive responses. A basic aging mechanism pertains to mitochondrial production of free radicals and their associated secondary effects. From this basic aging mechanism many other cellular changes can be explained as direct effects or compensatory...
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