Cancer Research
Research from University of Texas, Division of Medicinal Chemistry has provided new information about cancer research
Published in Cancer Weekly, May 11th, 2010
A new study, 'Targeting the prodeath and prosurvival functions of autophagy as novel therapeutic strategies in cancer,' is now available. "Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved lysosomal pathway for degrading cytoplasmic proteins, macromolecules, and organelles. While autophagy has become one of the most attractive topics in cancer research, the current autophagy literature is often viewed as confusing, because of its association with apparently contradictory roles, such as survival and cell death," scientists in the United States report.
"Autophagy can serve as a tumor suppressor, as a partial reduction in autophagic capacity or defective autophagy (e.g.,...
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