Maintaining motor units into old age: running the final common pathway

European Journal of Translational Myology

Kevin J. Gilmore¹  Charles L. Rice¹  Geoffrey A. Power²  Timothy J. Doherty³  Brian H. Dalton⁴  Matti D. Allen⁵ 

[1] Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging, School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario;Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, College of Biological Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario;Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Clinical Neurological Sciences, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario;School of Health and Exercise Sciences, The University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia;Schools of Medicine and Kinesiology and Health Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario;

关键词: Motor unit;    Masters athlete;    EMG;    Motor neuron;   

DOI  :  10.4081/ejtm.2017.6597

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This article is a commentary on the recently published manuscript "Use it or lose it: tonic activity of slow motoneurons promotes their survival and preferentially increases slow fiber-type groupings in muscles of old lifelong recreational sportsmen". Mosole S, Carraro U, Kern H, Loefler S, Zampieri S. Use it or lose it: tonic activity of slow motoneurons promotes their survival and preferentially increases slow fiber-type groupings in muscles of old lifelong recreational sportsmen. Eur J Transl Myol 2016;26:5972. doi: 10.4081/ejtm.2016.5972. We offer some unique perspectives on masters athletes and the role of physical activity in maintaining the number and function of motor units into old age.

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