BNIP3 regulates excessive mitophagy in the delayed neuronal death in stroke

Autophagy is a physiological process by which the cell eliminates damaged organelles, toxic agents, and long-lived proteins by degradation through lysosomal system. Mitophagy, the specific autophagic elimination of mitochondria, regulates mitochondrial number to match metabolic demand and is a core...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shi, Ruoyang
Other Authors: Kong, Jiming (Human Anatomy and Cell Science)
Published: Springer 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/23688