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Absence of morphological and molecular correlates of sarcopenia in the macaque tongue muscle styloglossus.
Experimental gerontology - 1 Nov 2016
Sokoloff Alan J, Douglas Megan, Rahnert Jill A, Burkholder Thomas, Easley Kirk A, Luo Qingwei
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INTRODUCTION: Equivocal decline of tongue muscle performance with age is compatible with resistance of the tongue to sarcopenia, the loss of muscle volume and function that typically occurs with aging. To test this possibility we characterized anatomical and molecular indices of sarcopenia in the macaque tongue muscle styloglossus (SG). METHODS: We quantified myosin heavy chain (MHC), muscle fiber MHC phenotype...
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