Autophagy Is Constitutively Active in Normal Mouse Sino-Atrial Nodal Cells

This study was designed to examine the autophagy in sino-atrial (SA) nodal cells from the normal adult mouse heart. Autophagy is the cellular process responsible for the degradation and recycling of long-lived and/or damaged cytoplasmic components by lysosomal digestion. In the heart, autophagy is k...

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Main Authors: Omatsu-Kanbe, Mariko, Yamamoto, Takefumi, Matsuura, Hiroshi
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Japan Society of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3210427/