Intensive Care Unit Muscle Wasting : Skeletal Muscle Phenotype and Underlying Molecular Mechanisms

Intensive Care Unit Muscle Wasting : Skeletal Muscle Phenotype and Underlying Molecular Mechanisms

Acute quadriplegic myopathy (AQM), or critical illness myopathy, is a common debilitating acquired disorder in critically ill intensive care unit (ICU) patients characterized by generalized muscle wasting and weakness of limb and trunk muscles. A preferential loss of the thick filament protein myosi...

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Main Author: Aare, Sudhakar Reddy
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Klinisk neurofysiologi 2012
Subjects:
acute quadriplegic myopathy
gene expression
myosin
heat shock proteins
mechanical ventilation
myostatin
sepsis
corticosteroids
diaphragm
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