Autophagy in invertebrates: Insights into development, regeneration and body remodeling

Current Pharmaceutical Design

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 116-125

  Tettamanti, Gianluca ^a   Saló, Emili ^b   González Estévez, Cristina ^b   Felix, Daniel A ^b   Grimaldi, Annalisa ^a   de Eguileor, Magda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Autophagic programmed cell death; Autophagy; Development; Insects; Invertebrates; Planarian; Regeneration; Starvation

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CYCLIC AMP; DEATH ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1; DEATH ASSOCIATED PROTEIN KINASE; ECDYSONE; FK 506 BINDING PROTEIN; FK 506 BINDING PROTEIN 39; INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; S6 KINASE; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONAL REGULATION; INSECT; INVERTEBRATE; LYSOSOME; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE DISEASE; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PLATYHELMINTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; CELL DEATH; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METAMORPHOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; TURBELLARIA;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; CELL DEATH; INSECTS; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANARIANS;

EID: 38949181943     PISSN: 13816128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138161208783378716     Document Type: Review

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