Mechanisms in Muscle Atrophy in Immobilization and Aging
- 1 June 2004
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 1019 (1) , 475-478
- https://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1297.086
Abstract
The purpose of this report was to study the effects of four weeks of hindlimb immobilization on acid phosphatase activity of old rats in comparison with the profile obtained after similar treatment in young rats.Keywords
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