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New life sciences study results from Harvard University described

Published in Gastroenterology Week, December 21st, 2009

"of review To give an overview of autophagy and its effects on innate and adaptive immunity and touch on some of the roles of autophagy in disease. Recent findings Precise regulation of autophagy is necessary to maintain metabolic equilibrium, immune homeostasis, delineate cell fate and influence host cell responses to cytosolic pathogens," researchers in the United States report.

"A growing number of studies have implicated that inactivation of autophagy-selective responses contributes to inflammatory disorders, neurodegeneration and cancer, but the precise steps at which disease-associated autophagy-related (ATG) genes affect autophagy pathways is unknown at present....

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Source: Gastroenterology Week (2009-12-21)

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