Introduction Despite optimal drug treatment, many patients with congestive heart failure (CHF)
or COPD still experience disabling dyspnea, fatigue, and exercise intolerance. They also …

Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) is the main physiological inhibitor of plasminogen
activators (PAs) and is therefore an important inhibitor of the plasminogen/plasmin system. …

Background Transcutaneous neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) can be applied
as a complementary intervention to regular exercise training programs. A distinction can be …

… for right and left handgrip strength were derived from 224,830 and 224,852 individuals (54.2%
women; age: 55.0 [8.0] years; height: 169.0 [9.2] cm; body mass index: 26.9 [4.4] kg/m 2 ) …

Rationale Strength training and neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) improve lower-limb
muscle function in dyspnoeic individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (…

… As the primary inhibitor of PAs, PAI-1 rapidly inactivates both tPA and uPA with second-order
rate constants between 10 6 and 10 7 M −1 s −1 following the basic mechanism applied to …

Thrombin activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI), a proenzyme, is converted to a potent
attenuator of the fibrinolytic system upon activation by thrombin, plasmin, or the thrombin/…

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients often experience lower limb muscle
dysfunction and wasting. Exercise-based training has potential to improve muscle function …

Introduction: Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is one of the core components in the management
of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In order to achieve the …

Resistance training and transcutaneous neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) are
new modalities in rehabilitation of severely disabled patients with chronic obstructive …