Overview
- State-of-the-art information on aging and skeletal muscle
- Contributions from some of the world’s leading experts in skeletal muscle aging
- Identifies key neuromuscular mechanisms responsible for sarcopenia
- Identifies signalling pathways and targets for therapeutic intervention
- Information has relevance and broad application for researchers and practitioners involved with the study and treatment of aging and its effects on skeletal muscle
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Book Title: Sarcopenia – Age-Related Muscle Wasting and Weakness
Book Subtitle: Mechanisms and Treatments
Editors: Gordon S. Lynch
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9713-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9712-5Published: 01 December 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9044-5Published: 12 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9713-2Published: 30 November 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 479
Topics: Biomedicine general, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Cell Biology, Sports Medicine, Medicine/Public Health, general
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