Impact of autophagy on chemotherapy and radiotherapy mediated tumor cytotoxicity: "to live or not to live"
Autophagy, a highly regulated cell "self-eating" pathway, is controlled by the action of over 34 autophagy-related proteins (collectively termed Atgs). Although they are fundamentally different processes, autophagy and apoptosis (type I programmed cell death), under certain circums...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2011-10-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Oncology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fonc.2011.00030/full |