The decline in skeletal muscle mass with aging is mainly attributed to a reduction in type II muscle fiber size.

By Rachél Nilwik, T. Snijders, Marika Leenders, Bart B L Groen, J. V. van Kranenburg, L. Verdijk, Luc J. C. van Loon. Experimental Gerontology, 2013

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Subfields: Molecular Biology, Physiology

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Citations in the corpus

• Skeletal muscle performance and ageing (2017, neutral): “that predominantly type II muscle fibre size is declined with ageing.(45) These studies illustrate that full consensus on this”