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Accumulation of an antidepressant in vesiculogenic membranes of yeast cells triggers autophagy.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Chen Jingqiu, Korostyshevsky Daniel, Lee Sean, Perlstein Ethan O
Abstract excerpt
Many antidepressants are cationic amphipaths, which spontaneously accumulate in natural or reconstituted membranes in the absence of their specific protein targets. However, the clinical relevance of cellular membrane accumulation by antidepressants in the human brain is unknown and hotly debated. Here we take a novel, evolutionarily informed approach to studying the effects of the selective-serotonin reuptake...
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