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Medicina Fluminensis : Medicina Fluminensis, Vol. 51 No. 4, 2015.

Review article

Effects of aging on skeletal muscles

Marina Nikolić ; Zavod za anatomiju, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci
Snježana Bajek ; Zavod za anatomiju, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka
Tamara Šoić Vranić ; Zavod za anatomiju, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka
Orijana Buneta ; Centar za rehabilitaciju Rijeka, Rijeka
Gordana Starčević-Klasan ; Zavod za anatomiju, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka
Dragica Bobinac ; Zavod za anatomiju, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka

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Abstract

Muscle size changes across the human lifespan, initially showing rapid increases due to grow and later gradual decreases due to aging. There are same changes in muscle mass and performance with aging. Aged skeletal muscles, particulary type II muscle fibers, are more susceptible than younger ones to muscle damage and display an impaired regenerative capacity. A number of factors have been proposed as contributing to age related loss of skeletal muscle and its contractility. This disease state termed sarcopenia.

Keywords

aging; skeletal muscle

Hrčak ID:

148295

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/148295

Publication date:

1.12.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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