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Specific force of the rat plantaris muscle changes with age, but not with overload
H Degens1, L Hoofd, R A Binkhorst
1Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development
|March 17, 1995
Abstract:
Age and overload effects on the specific force of the rat plantaris muscle were investigated. The specific force was affected by age, but not by overload, inducing a 30% hypertrophy, at any age. The relative amount of non-contractile tissue only minimally affected the conclusions.