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PLOS ONE
Volume 14, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0224866
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- NKFIH [FK129190]
- New National Excellence Program of the Ministry of Human Capacities [UNKP-18-4-PTE-364]
- Institutional Excellence Program 2018 [17886-4/2018 FEKUTSTRAT]
- University of Pecs, Medical School [KA-2018-17]
- [GINOP 2.3.2-15-2016-00047]
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This study considered the effects of repeated bouts of short-term resistive exercise in old (age: 64.5 +/- 5.5 years; n = 10) and young men (age: 25.1 +/- 4.9 years; n = 10) who performed six knee extension exercise bouts over two weeks using various markers of exercise-induced muscle damage and electromyographic activity. We found that time-course changes in quadriceps isometric torque, creatine kinase activity, and muscle soreness in the two groups were similar. However, recovery in the acute torque deficit was mediated by more favourable electromyographic activity changes in the young group than in the older adults group. Muscle elastic energy storage and re-use assessed with dynamometry was selectively improved in the young group by the end of the protocol. Serum myoglobin concentration increased selectively in old group, and remained elevated with further bouts, suggesting higher sarcolemma vulnerability and less effective metabolic adaptation in the older adults, which, however, did not affect muscle contractility.
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