Tae Chung1, Jae Sung Park2,3, Sangri Kim2, Nataly Montes4, Jeremy Walston5, Ahmet Höke2. 1. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. 2. Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 21205, USA. 3. Department of Physical Education, Kongju National University, Gongju, Republic of Korea. 4. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, VA Caribbean Healthcare System, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 5. Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Age-associated muscle strength decline is a major contributing factor to increased late-life functional decline and comorbidity, and is strongly associated with early mortality. Although all parts of the neuromuscular system seem to be affected by aging, dying-back of motor axons likely plays a major role. METHODS: We compared the degeneration in ventral roots and neuromuscular junction denervation in young and aged mice and correlated the findings with strength and electrophysiological measures. RESULTS: With normal aging, there is little decline in motor axon numbers in the ventral roots, but the neuromuscular junctions show marked partial denervation that is associated with increased jitter on stimulated single fiber electromyography and a decrease in muscle strength. CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that dying-back axonal degeneration may be partially responsible for the electrophysiological and strength changes observed with aging. Muscle Nerve 55: 894-901, 2017.
INTRODUCTION: Age-associated muscle strength decline is a major contributing factor to increased late-life functional decline and comorbidity, and is strongly associated with early mortality. Although all parts of the neuromuscular system seem to be affected by aging, dying-back of motor axons likely plays a major role. METHODS: We compared the degeneration in ventral roots and neuromuscular junction denervation in young and aged mice and correlated the findings with strength and electrophysiological measures. RESULTS: With normal aging, there is little decline in motor axon numbers in the ventral roots, but the neuromuscular junctions show marked partial denervation that is associated with increased jitter on stimulated single fiber electromyography and a decrease in muscle strength. CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that dying-back axonal degeneration may be partially responsible for the electrophysiological and strength changes observed with aging. Muscle Nerve 55: 894-901, 2017.
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