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| Lex B VerdijkSummaryAffiliation: Maastricht University Country: The Netherlands Publications
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Satellite cell content is specifically reduced in type II skeletal muscle fibers in the elderlyLex B Verdijk
Dept of Movement Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 292:E151-7. 2007..The decline in SC content might be an important factor in the etiology of type II muscle fiber atrophy, which accompanies the loss of skeletal muscle with aging...
One-repetition maximum strength test represents a valid means to assess leg strength in vivo in humansLex B Verdijk
Department of Human Movement Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
J Sports Sci 27:59-68. 2009..Considering the importance of training specificity in strength assessment, we argue that 1-RM testing can be applied to assess changes in leg muscle strength following an exercise intervention...- Protein supplementation before and after exercise does not further augment skeletal muscle hypertrophy after resistance training in elderly menLex B Verdijk
Department of Human Movement Sciences, Nutrition and Toxicology Research Institute Maastricht NUTRIM, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
Am J Clin Nutr 89:608-16. 2009..Considerable discrepancy exists in the literature on the proposed benefits of protein supplementation on the adaptive response of skeletal muscle to resistance-type exercise training in the elderly... 
Skeletal muscle hypertrophy following resistance training is accompanied by a fiber type-specific increase in satellite cell content in elderly menLex B Verdijk
Department of Human Movement Sciences, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, P O Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 64:332-9. 2009..001). No changes were observed in the Type I muscle fibers. In older adults, skeletal muscle tissue is still capable of inducing SC proliferation and differentiation, resulting in Type II muscle fiber hypertrophy...- Characteristics of muscle fiber type are predictive of skeletal muscle mass and strength in elderly menLex B Verdijk
Department of Human Movement Sciences, NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
J Am Geriatr Soc 58:2069-75. 2010..To investigate the relationship between skeletal muscle fiber type-specific characteristics, circulating hormone concentrations, and skeletal muscle mass and strength in older men... - Long-term leucine supplementation does not increase muscle mass or strength in healthy elderly menSuzanne Verhoeven
Department of Human Movement Sciences, Nutrition and Toxicology Research Institute, Maastricht, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
Am J Clin Nutr 89:1468-75. 2009..It has been reported that the blunted muscle protein synthetic response to food intake in the elderly can be normalized by increasing the leucine content of a meal... - Co-ingestion of leucine with protein does not further augment post-exercise muscle protein synthesis rates in elderly menRene Koopman
Department of Movement Sciences, Nutrition and Toxicology Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Br J Nutr 99:571-80. 2008..Co-ingestion of leucine with carbohydrate and protein following physical activity does not further elevate muscle protein fractional synthetic rate in elderly men when ample protein is ingested... - Neuromuscular electrical stimulation increases muscle protein synthesis in elderly type 2 diabetic menBenjamin T Wall
Department of Human Movement Sciences, NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 303:E614-23. 2012..NMES likely represents an effective interventional strategy to attenuate muscle loss in elderly individuals during bed rest and/or in other disuse states... - Reduced satellite cell numbers with spinal cord injury and aging in humansLex B Verdijk
1NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Department of Human Movement Sciences, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, THE NETHERLANDS 2Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, THE NETHERLANDS 3Department of Physiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, THE NETHERLANDS and 4Research Institute for Sports and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Med Sci Sports Exerc 44:2322-30. 2012..Despite obvious similarities in atrophy between both models, differences in muscle fiber size and satellite cell content may exist on a muscle fiber type-specific level... - The impact of sarcopenia and exercise training on skeletal muscle satellite cellsTim Snijders
Department of Human Movement Sciences, Nutrition and Toxicology Research Institute Maastricht NUTRIM, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Ageing Res Rev 8:328-38. 2009..This review discusses the contribution of skeletal muscle SC in the age-related loss of muscle mass and the efficacy of exercise training as a means to attenuate and/or reverse this process... - A single bout of exercise activates skeletal muscle satellite cells during subsequent overnight recoveryTim Snijders
Department of Human Movement Sciences, NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Exp Physiol 97:762-73. 2012..A single bout of exercise activates both type I and II skeletal muscle fibre SCs within a single night of postexercise recovery, preceding the subsequent increase in SC content... - Continuous endurance-type exercise training does not modulate satellite cell content in obese type 2 diabetes patientsTim Snijders
Department of Human Movement Sciences, NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre, P O Box 616, Maastricht 6200 MD, The Netherlands
Muscle Nerve 43:393-401. 2011..No change in SC content was observed after exercise training. Continuous endurance-type exercise training lowers fat mass, but it does not increase leg lean mass and/or modulate muscle fiber characteristics in type 2 diabetes patients... - The robustness of age-related gait adaptations: can running counterbalance the consequences of ageing?Hans H C M Savelberg
Department of Human Movement Science, Nutrition and Toxicology Research Institute Maastricht NUTRIM, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands
Gait Posture 25:259-66. 2007..It is concluded that the age-related redistribution of joint torques is an important phenomenon. Frequent running does not prevent this shift. Active elderly increase this redistribution to compensate for muscle function reduction...