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Skeletal muscle fibre-type shifting and metabolic profile in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseH R Gosker
Dept of Pulmonology, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
Eur Respir J 19:617-25. 2002..Low oxidative capacity is closely related to the proportion of type-I fibres, but an additional reduction of oxidative enzyme activity is present within IIA fibres. Fibre-type abnormalities may be aggravated in emphysema...
Skeletal muscle dysfunction in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic heart failure: underlying mechanisms and therapy perspectivesH R Gosker
Departments of Pulmonology and Physiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
Am J Clin Nutr 71:1033-47. 2000....
Reduced mitochondrial density in the vastus lateralis muscle of patients with COPDH R Gosker
Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University, Nutrition and Toxicology Research Institute Maastricht, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Eur Respir J 30:73-9. 2007....
Muscle metabolic modulation by chronic hypoxiaHarry R Gosker
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nutrition and Toxicology Research Institute Maastricht NUTRIM, Maastricht University, P O Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
J Proteome Res 6:3400-1. 2007..Proteome Res. 2007, 6(5), 1974-1984). For this, relatively young animals were used. In our communication, we note that, based on other literature, it is likely that the adaptive response of skeletal muscle to hypoxia attenuates with age...
TNF-alpha impairs regulation of muscle oxidative phenotype: implications for cachexia?A H V Remels
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands
FASEB J 24:5052-62. 2010..In conclusion, these results demonstrate that TNF-α impairs muscle oxphen in a NF-κB-dependent manner...
Exercise training restores uncoupling protein-3 content in limb muscles of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseHarry R Gosker
Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht Univ, Nutrition and Toxicology Research Institute Maastricht, P O Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 290:E976-81. 2006..We conclude that exercise-training can restore muscle UCP3 protein level in COPD, and the nature of this response complies with the hypothesis that UCP3 may protect against lipotoxicity...
Altered antioxidant status in peripheral skeletal muscle of patients with COPDHarry R Gosker
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nutrition Toxicology and Environment Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Respir Med 99:118-25. 2005....
Myopathological features in skeletal muscle of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseH R Gosker
Dept of Pulmonology, Nutrition Toxicology and Environment Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Eur Respir J 22:280-5. 2003..Also, in this group of clinically and weight stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients, apoptosis appeared not to be involved in muscle pathology...
Uncoupling protein-3 content is decreased in peripheral skeletal muscle of patients with COPDH R Gosker
Dept of Pulmonology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Eur Respir J 22:88-93. 2003..The low uncoupling protein-3 content is independent of the loss of oxidative capacity observed in these patients...
Striking similarities in systemic factors contributing to decreased exercise capacity in patients with severe chronic heart failure or COPDHarry R Gosker
Department of Pulmonology, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
Chest 123:1416-24. 2003....
Muscle fiber type IIX atrophy is involved in the loss of fat-free mass in chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseHarry R Gosker
Department of Pulmonology, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands
Am J Clin Nutr 76:113-9. 2002..Although the loss of peripheral muscle mass has been shown convincingly in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the underlying pathogenesis remains unclear...
Extrapulmonary manifestations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a mouse model of chronic cigarette smoke exposureHarry R Gosker
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nutrition and Toxicology Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 40:710-6. 2009..In this mouse model, chronic cigarette smoke exposure resulted in systemic features that closely resemble the early signs of the extrapulmonary manifestations observed in patients with COPD...
Muscle fibre type shifting in the vastus lateralis of patients with COPD is associated with disease severity: a systematic review and meta-analysisHarry R Gosker
Department of Respiratory Medicine, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, P O Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Thorax 62:944-9. 2007..A study was conducted to determine whether vastus lateralis muscle fibre type proportions are associated with COPD disease severity and to provide reference values for the proportions of fibre types in the vastus lateralis in COPD...
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor expression is reduced in skeletal muscle in COPDA H Remels
Department of Respiratory Medicine, University of Maastricht, P O Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands
Eur Respir J 30:245-52. 2007..Therefore, a disturbed expression of these regulatory factors may well underlie the disturbed skeletal muscle functioning in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease...
Regulation of mitochondrial biogenesis during myogenesisA H V Remels
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Centre, P O Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands
Mol Cell Endocrinol 315:113-20. 2010..In particular, PGC-1alpha and PPAR-alpha may be involved in the regulation of mitochondrial biogenesis during myogenesis...
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors: a therapeutic target in COPD?A H Remels
Dept of Respiratory Medicine, University of Maastricht, PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands
Eur Respir J 31:502-8. 2008..Proposed mechanisms will be outlined in the present article, as well as the therapeutic potential of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor modulation in the treatment of skeletal muscle dysfunction...
Exercise-induced lactate increase in relation to muscle substrates in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseM P Engelen
Departments of Pulmonology and Surgery, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 162:1697-704. 2000..However, factors other than physical inactivity, such as Pa(O(2)) or DL(CO), play a role in the different La responses during exercise in subjects with different subtypes of COPD...
PPARgamma inhibits NF-kappaB-dependent transcriptional activation in skeletal muscleA H V Remels
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University, P O Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 297:E174-83. 2009..These findings demonstrate that muscle-specific inhibition of NF-kappaB activation may be an interesting therapeutic avenue for treatment of several inflammation-associated skeletal muscle abnormalities...
Systemic inflammation and skeletal muscle dysfunction in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: state of the art and novel insights in regulation of muscle plasticityAlexander H Remels
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nutrition and Toxicology Research Institute, University of Maastricht, P O Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands
Clin Chest Med 28:537-52, vi. 2007..This article describes state-of-the-art knowledge and novel insights in the role of inflammatory processes on several aspects of inflammation-related skeletal muscle pathology and offers new insights in therapeutic perspectives...
Systemic and pulmonary oxidative stress after single-leg exercise in COPDEvi M Mercken
Departments of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Chest 136:1291-300. 2009..Our aim for this study was to disentangle the contribution of muscular vs pulmonary oxidative stress during endurance exercise in patients with COPD...
The pathophysiology of cachexia in chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseAnnemie M W J Schols
Department of Respiratory Medicine, NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre, P O Box 5800, 6202 AZ, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Curr Opin Support Palliat Care 3:282-7. 2009..The focus of this review is on translation of putative mechanisms of altered energy metabolism and muscle maintenance in cachexia to clinical comparative and intervention studies on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...
Pulmonary function in diabetes: a metaanalysisBram van den Borst
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Chest 138:393-406. 2010..Research into the association between diabetes and pulmonary function has resulted in inconsistent outcomes among studies. We performed a metaanalysis to clarify this association...
The major limitation to exercise performance in COPD is inadequate energy supply to the respiratory and locomotor muscles vs. lower limb muscle dysfunction vs. dynamic hyperinflation. Missing piecesHarry R Gosker
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
J Appl Physiol 105:761. 2008
The functional, metabolic, and anabolic responses to exercise training in renal transplant and hemodialysis patientsEugénie C H van den Ham
Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Transplantation 83:1059-68. 2007..The aim of the study was to compare intrinsic muscular parameters between HD and RTx patients and controls, and to assess the response to exercise training on exercise capacity and muscular structure and function in these groups...
ACE Gene Polymorphism in COPDHarry R Gosker
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 170:572; author reply 572-3. 2004
