| Authors | Experimental model | Number of analyzed genes | Identified affected pathways |
| Mouse |
| Lee et al., 1999 [25] | Studied tissue: aged skeletal muscle. | 6347 | Stress response, energy metabolism. |
| Rat |
| Sreekumar et al., 2002 [28] | 12-months-old Sprague-Dawley rats. Studied tissue: gastrocnemius muscle. | 800 | Energy metabolism, signal transduction, stress response, glucose/lipid metabolism, and structural/contractile function. | Altun et al., 2007 [29] | 4- and 30-months-old rats.Studied tissue: gastrocnemius muscle. | 6240 | Redox homeostasis, iron load, regulation of contractile proteins, glycolysis, and oxidative phosphorylation. | Lombardi et al., 2009 [26] | 3- and 24-months-old rats.Studied tissue: gastrocnemius muscle. | 1176 | Energy metabolism, mitochondrial pathways, myofibrillar filaments, and detoxification. |
| Human |
| Welle et al., 2003 [23] | 21–27 yr of age and 67–75 yr of age.Studied tissue: vastus lateralis muscle. | 44 000 | Cell cycle/cell growth, inflammation, signal transduction, protein metabolism, transcription, stress response/DNA repair, energy metabolism, and hormonal. | Welle et al., 2004 [19] | 20–29 yr of age and 65–71 yr of age, women.Studied tissue: vastus lateralis muscle. | 1000 | Stress response/DNA repair, energy metabolism. | Zahn et al., 2006 [21] | 16 and 89 yr of age. Studied tissue: skeletal muscle. | 54 675 | Electron transport chain, cell cycle/cell growth, extracellular matrix, chloride transport, complement activation, ribosomes. |
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