Autophagy in acute brain injury: Feast, famine, or folly?

In the central nervous system, increased autophagy has now been reported after traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, cerebral ischemia, intracerebral hemorrhage, and seizures. This increase in autophagy could be physiologic, converting damaged or dysfunctional proteins, lipids, and/or organelles t...

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Main Authors: Craig M. Smith, Yaming Chen, Mara L. Sullivan, Patrick M. Kochanek, Robert S.B. Clark
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2011-07-01
Series:Neurobiology of Disease
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996110003153