Molecular mechanisms underlying the crosstalk between autophagy and apoptosis
Macroautophagy (hereafter referred to as autophagy) is an evolutionary conserved mechanism for the degradation of long-lived proteins and organelles inside lysosomes. Autophagy functions as an adaptive survival response to starvation and other cellular stresses, but recent studies also demonstrated...
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Language: | English |
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University of British Columbia
2010
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/24144 |