Mechanism and Regulation of Autophagy and Its Role in Neuronal Diseases

Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1190-1209

  Hu, Zhiping ^a   Yang, Binbin ^a   Mo, Xiaoye ^b   Xiao, Han ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Autophagy; Autophagy flux; Brain ischemia; Myelin disease; Neurodegenerative diseases; Neurons

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; PROTEASOME; UBIQUITIN; MECHANISTIC TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; NERVE PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; TOR COMPLEX 2;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; AUTOPHAGOSOME; AUTOPHAGY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL MIGRATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MACROAUTOPHAGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; LYSOSOME; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHAGOSOME; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; UBIQUITINATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; LYSOSOMES; MICE; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONS; PHAGOSOMES; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RAS PROTEINS; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; UBIQUITINATION;

EID: 84942754615     PISSN: 08937648     EISSN: 15591182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12035-014-8921-4     Document Type: Review

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