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ESCRT, autophagy, and frontotemporal dementia.
BMB reports - 31 Dec 2008
Lee Jin-A, Gao Fen-Biao
Abstract excerpt
Many age-dependent neurodegenerative diseases are associated with the accumulation of abnormally folded proteins within neurons. One of the major proteolytic pathways in the cell is the autophagy pathway, which targets cytoplasmic contents and organelles to the lysosomes for bulk degradation under various physiological and stressful conditions. Although the importance of autophagy in cellular physiology is well...
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