نبذة مختصرة : Skeletal muscle dysfunction and wasting are major comorbidities of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer (LC). Despite that the lower limb muscles are usually more severely affected, the respiratory muscles may also experience structural and functional abnormalities in COPD. Muscle dysfunction negatively impacts on the patients’ quality of life by impairing their exercise tolerance even of daily life activities. Several molecular mechanisms are involved in the etiology of COPD muscle dysfunction. In this regard, we hypothesized that oxidative stress may be a trigger of enhanced muscle proteolysis and dysfunction in the limb muscles of cachectic patients bearing two different respiratory conditions such as COPD and LC, and that epigenetic events may be involved in the pathophysiology of COPD muscle dysfunction of both respiratory and limb muscles.
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