Journal article
MOTONEURONE DISEASE AND AGEING
Abstract
New methods for estimating numbers of functioning motor units in human muscles have shown that muscle denervation is part of the normal ageing process and that it becomes more striking beyond the age of 60. The similarity of this age to the peak age-incidence of motoneurone disease is not regarded as fortuitous—rather it is argued that the disease is an accelerated form of normal ageing. It is thought that motoneurone ageing is determined …
Authors
Mccomas AJ; Upton ARM; Sica REP
Journal
The Lancet, Vol. 302, No. 7844, pp. 1477–1480
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
December 1973
DOI
10.1016/s0140-6736(73)92735-9
ISSN
0140-6736