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Monitoring Autophagy in Muscle Stem Cells
Autophagy is critical not only for the cell’s adaptive response to starvation but also for cellular homeostasis, by acting as quality-control machinery for cytoplasmic components. This basal autophagic activit...
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Autophagy maintains stemness by preventing senescence
During ageing, muscle stem-cell regenerative function declines. At advanced geriatric age, this decline is maximal owing to transition from a normal quiescence into an irreversible senescence state. How satell...
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Methods for Mitochondria and Mitophagy Flux Analyses in Stem Cells of Resting and Regenerating Skeletal Muscle
Mitochondria generate most of the cell’s supply of ATP as a source of energy. They are also implicated in the control of cell’s growth and death. Because of these critical functions, mitochondrial fitness is k...
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Autophagy maintains stemness by preventing senescence
The regenerative properties of muscle stem cells decline with age as the stem cells enter an irreversible state of senescence; a study of mouse muscle stem cells reveals that entry into senescence is an autoph...
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Autophagic Pathways and Parkinson Disease
Autophagy is responsible for the degradation and recycling of intracellular material including organelles, cytosolic proteins, and accumulated misfolded proteins. Increasing evidence implicates autophagy dysfu...
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Fighting neurodegeneration with rapamycin: mechanistic insights
Multiple independent studies have recently shown that rapamycin, a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved antibiotic and immunosuppressant currently us...
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Letter to the Editor: Backbone 1H, 13C and 15N Resonance Assignments for the 18.7 kDa GTPase Domain of Escherichia Coli MnmE Protein