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JOURNAL OF HISTOCHEMISTRY & CYTOCHEMISTRY
卷 53, 期 4, 页码 445-454出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1369/jhc.4A6257.2005
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aging muscle spindles; MyHC; intrafusal fiber content; biceps brachii; human
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The present study investigated potential age-related changes in human muscle spindles with respect to the intrafusal fiber-type content and myosin heavy chain (MyHC) composition in biceps brachii muscle. The total number of intrafusal fibers per spindle decreased significantly with aging, due to a significant reduction in the number of nuclear chain fibers. Nuclear chain fibers in old spindles were short and some showed novel expression of MyHC a-cardiac. The expression of MyHC a-cardiac in bag, and bag(2) fibers was greatly decreased in the A region. The expression of slow MyHC was increased in nuclear bag, fibers and that of fetal MyHC decreased in bag(2) fibers whereas the patterns of distribution of the remaining MyHC isoforms were generally not affected by aging. We conclude that aging appears to have an important impact on muscle spindle composition. These changes in muscle spindle phenotype may reflect an age-related deterioration in sensory and motor innervation and are likely to have an impact in motor control in the elderly.
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