Tension-induced autophagy: May the chaperone be with you
Impairment of autophagy in patients and animal models severely affects mechanically strained tissues such as skeletal muscle, heart, lung and kidney, leading for example to muscle dystrophy, cardiomyopathy and renal injury. However, the reason for this high reliance on autophagy remained largely elu...
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| Format: | Online |
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Landes Bioscience
2013
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3672301/ |