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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2018

Ambiguous Effects of Autophagy Activation Following Hypoperfusion/Ischemia.

Michela Ferrucci, Francesca Biagioni, Larisa Ryskalin, Fiona Limanaqi, Stefano Gambardella, Alessandro Frati, Francesco Fornai

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
29citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  14. Autophagy in trimethyltin-induced neurodegeneration.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2020
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  15. New Insights for nicotinamide: Metabolic disease, autophagy, and mTOR.Frontiers in bioscience (Landmark edition) · 2020
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  17. mTOR-Related Cell-Clearing Systems in Epileptic Seizures, an Update.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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  18. Natural Compounds and Autophagy: Allies Against Neurodegeneration.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2020
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  19. Role of Mitofusins and Mitophagy in Life or Death Decisions.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Michela FerrucciDepartment of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Via Roma 55, 56126 Pisa, Italy. michela.ferrucci@med.unipi.it.ORCID 0000-0002-3009-7160
Francesca BiagioniIRCCS Neuromed, Via Atinense 18, 86077 Pozzilli (IS), Italy. francesca.biagioni@neuromed.it.
Larisa RyskalinDepartment of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Via Roma 55, 56126 Pisa, Italy. larisa.ryskalin@unipi.it.ORCID 0000-0003-3150-1863
Fiona LimanaqiDepartment of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Via Roma 55, 56126 Pisa, Italy. f.limanaqi@studenti.unipi.it.ORCID 0000-0003-0185-2099
Stefano GambardellaIRCCS Neuromed, Via Atinense 18, 86077 Pozzilli (IS), Italy. stefano.gambardella@neuromed.it.
Alessandro FratiIRCCS Neuromed, Via Atinense 18, 86077 Pozzilli (IS), Italy. alessandro.frati@uniroma1.it.
Francesco FornaiDepartment of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Via Roma 55, 56126 Pisa, Italy. francesco.fornai@neuromed.it.ORCID 0000-0002-3883-5084

Funding

Ministero della Salute Ricerca Corrente 2018
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autophagy primarily works to counteract nutrient deprivation that is strongly engaged during starvation and hypoxia, which happens in hypoperfusion. Nonetheless, autophagy is slightly active even in baseline conditions, when it is useful to remove aged proteins and organelles. This is critical when the mitochondria and/or proteins are damaged by toxic stimuli. In the present review, we discuss to that extent the recruitment of autophagy is beneficial in counteracting brain hypoperfusion or, vice-versa, its overactivity may per se be detrimental for cell survival. While analyzing these opposite effects, it turns out that the autophagy activity is likely not to be simply good or bad for cell survival, but its role varies depending on the timing and amount of autophagy activation. This calls for the need for an appropriate autophagy tuning to guarantee a beneficial effect on cell survival. Therefore, the present article draws a theoretical pattern of autophagy activation, which is hypothesized to define the appropriate timing and intensity, which should mirrors the duration and severity of brain hypoperfusion. The need for a fine tuning of the autophagy activation may explain why confounding outcomes occur when autophagy is studied using a rather simplistic approach.

Indexed as

AnimalsAutophagyBrain IschemiaCell SurvivalCerebrovascular CirculationHumansMitochondriaMitophagyNeurodegenerative Diseasesautophagybrain ischemiacerebral blood flowhypoxiamitophagyneurodegenerationstarvation

Identifiers

PMID30217100
PMCPMC6163197

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