Skeletal muscles and satellite cells: How exercise leads to longer lives
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - 10:00
in Health & Medicine
A trio of researchers at Ottawa Hospital Research Institute has conducted a review of the ways that periodic activation of satellite cells through exercise can lessen senescence acquisition and myogenic decline. In their paper published in the journal Open Biology, William Chen, David Datzkiw and Michael Rudnick describe their review and what they learned about the benefits of exercise on skeletal muscle as people age.