Letters to the Editor
Vol. 27 No. 1 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.4081/ejtm.2017.6597

Maintaining motor units into old age: running the final common pathway

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Received: 30 January 2017
Published: 24 March 2017
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Motor unit, Masters athlete, EMG, Motor neuron
Neuromuscular

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Geoffrey A. Power
gapower@uoguelph.ca
Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, College of Biological Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Brian H. Dalton
School of Health and Exercise Sciences, The University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.
Kevin J. Gilmore
Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging, School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
Matti D. Allen
Schools of Medicine and Kinesiology and Health Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Timothy J. Doherty
Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Clinical Neurological Sciences, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
Charles L. Rice
Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging, School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario; Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
This article is a commentary on the recently published manuscript "Use it or lose it: tonic activity of slow motoneurons promotes their survival and preferentially increases slow fiber-type groupings in muscles of old lifelong recreational sportsmen". Mosole S, Carraro U, Kern H, Loefler S, Zampieri S. Use it or lose it: tonic activity of slow motoneurons promotes their survival and preferentially increases slow fiber-type groupings in muscles of old lifelong recreational sportsmen. Eur J Transl Myol 2016;26:5972. doi: 10.4081/ejtm.2016.5972. We offer some unique perspectives on masters athletes and the role of physical activity in maintaining the number and function of motor units into old age.

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Geoffrey A. Power, Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, College of Biological Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
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Power GA, Dalton BH, Gilmore KJ, Allen MD, Doherty TJ, Rice CL. Maintaining motor units into old age: running the final common pathway. Eur J Transl Myol [Internet]. 2017 Mar. 24 [cited 2026 Apr. 28];27(1). Available from: https://www.pagepressjournals.org/bam/article/view/6597

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