Methods for assessing autophagy and autophagic cell death

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 445, Issue , 2008, Pages 29-76

  Tasdemir, Ezgi ^a   Galluzzi, Lorenzo ^a,b,c   Maiuri, M Chiara ^a,b,d   Criollo, Alfredo ^a,b,c   Vitale, Ilio ^a,b,c   Hangen, Emilie ^a,b,c   Modjtahedi, Nazanine ^a,b,c   Kroemer, Guido ^a,b,c  

^a Institut Gustave Roussy   (France)

^b INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Autophagosomes; Endoplasmic reticulum; Fluorescence microscopy; LC3 GFP; Lysosomes; Mitochondria; Starvation.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934441413     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-157-4_3     Document Type: Article

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