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Autophagy in cardiovascular diseases: role of noncoding RNAs
3 Nov 2020
Abstract excerpt
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain the world's leading cause of death. Cardiomyocyte autophagy helps maintain normal metabolism and functioning of the heart. Importantly, mounting evidence has revealed that autophagy plays a dual role in CVD pathology. Under physiological conditions, moderate autophagy maintains cell metabolic balance by degrading and recycling damaged organelles and proteins, and it promotes...
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