Uncoupling AMPK from autophagy: A foe that hinders the beneficial effects of metformin treatment on metabolic syndrome-associated atherosclerosis? Focus on “glucose and palmitate uncouple AMPK from autophagy in human aortic endothelial cells”

American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology

Volumn 308, Issue 3, 2015, Pages C246-C248

  Ding, Wen Xing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE KINASE; METFORMIN; PALMITIC ACID;

AORTA; AORTIC ENDOTHELIAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOPHAGOSOME; AUTOPHAGY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CELL ENERGY; EDITORIAL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HUMAN; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

AMP-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; AORTA; AUTOPHAGY; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; PALMITIC ACID;

EID: 84922210546     PISSN: 03636143     EISSN: 15221563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00375.2014     Document Type: Editorial

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