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

• Main Authors: Geoffrey A. Power (Author), Brian H. Dalton (Author), Kevin J. Gilmore (Author), Matti D. Allen (Author), Timothy J. Doherty (Author), Charles L. Rice (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: PAGEPress Publications, 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...