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Effects of exercise on neuromuscular junction components across age: systematic review of animal experimental studies

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Title
Effects of exercise on neuromuscular junction components across age: systematic review of animal experimental studies
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BMC Research Notes, November 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13104-015-1644-4
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Walter Krause Neto, Adriano Polican Ciena, Carlos Alberto Anaruma, Romeu Rodrigues de Souza, Eliane Florencio Gama

Abstract

During almost one-third of our life, maturation of the nervous system promotes strength and muscle mass increase. However, as age advances, the nervous system begins to suffer a slow and continue reduction of its functions. Neuromuscular junction (NMJ) is one of the structures of which change due to aging process. Physical training leads to significant adjustments in NMJs of young and aged animals. Nevertheless, studies that aimed to investigate this effect have, in many cases, methodological variables that may have some influence on the result. Thus, this study aimed to carry out a systematic review about the effects of exercise training on the NMJ compartments of young, adult and aged animals. We searched PubMed, Google Scholar, Science Direct, Scielo and Lilacs databases for animal experimental studies that studied exercise effects on the NMJs components across age. After inclusion and exclusion criteria, we included nine articles in systematic review and two for meta-analysis (young/adult NMJ). We identified that exercise training cause NMJ hypertrophy on young animals and NMJ compression on aged ones. However, many methodological issues such as age, skeletal muscle and fibers type, and type of exercise and training protocol might influence the results. Graphical abstract: Flow gram is actually to be show at results section as Fig 1.

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Country Count As %
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 85 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 16 19%
Student > Master 13 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 10%
Professor 5 6%
Researcher 4 5%
Other 10 12%
Unknown 29 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 14 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 7%
Neuroscience 4 5%
Other 11 13%
Unknown 36 42%
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#15,351,145
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#2,314
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#226,602
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#87
of 165 outputs
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