Diaphragm and ventilatory dysfunction during cancer cachexia

Cancer cachexia is characterized by a continuous loss of locomotor skeletal muscle mass, which causes profound muscle weakness. If this atrophy and weakness also occurs in diaphragm muscle, it could lead to respiratory failure, which is a major cause of death in patients with cancer. Thus, the purpo...

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Hauptverfasser: Roberts, Brandon M., Ahn, Bumsoo, Smuder, Ashley J., Al-Rajhi, Monsour, Gill, Luther C., Beharry, Adam W., Powers, Scott K., Fuller, David D., Ferreira, Leonardo F., Judge, Andrew R.
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2013
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Research Communications
Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3688752/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23515443
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1096/fj.12-222844
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