skeletal muscle atrophy

id: GO:0014732
name: skeletal muscle atrophy
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: A process, occurring in skeletal muscle, that is characterized by a decrease in protein content, fiber diameter, force production and fatigue resistance in response to different conditions such as starvation, aging and disuse.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0014891striated muscle atrophy
GO:0043501skeletal muscle adaptation