In cirrhotic patients reduced muscle strength is unrelated to muscle capacity for ATP turnover suggesting a central limitation

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  • Christiane Marie Bourgin Gam
  • H B Nielsen
  • Secher, Niels H.
  • F S Larsen
  • Peter Ott
  • Bjørn Quistorff
  We investigated whether in patients with liver cirrhosis reduced muscle strength is related to dysfunction of muscle mitochondria.
Original languageEnglish
JournalClinical Physiology and Functional Imaging
Volume31
Issue number3
Pages (from-to)169-74
Number of pages6
ISSN1475-0961
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2011

    Research areas

  • Adenosine Triphosphate, Adult, Analysis of Variance, Case-Control Studies, Central Nervous System, Energy Metabolism, Female, Glycolysis, Humans, Least-Squares Analysis, Linear Models, Liver Cirrhosis, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Male, Middle Aged, Mitochondria, Muscle, Muscle Contraction, Muscle Strength, Muscle, Skeletal, Oxygen Consumption, Phosphocreatine

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