American Physiological Society, American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, 5(319), p. H1142-H1151, 2020
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00306.2020
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This work confirms the previously reported impairment in the functional response to exercise training of patients with COPD compared with SHS. Moreover, it shows for the first time that pericyte coverage of the skeletal capillaries is drastically reduced in patients with COPD compared with SHS during training-induced angiogenesis. Finally, it provides experimental evidence that circulating factors are involved in the impaired pericyte coverage of patients with COPD.