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ArticleAutophagy2008

Autophagy following heat stress: the role of aging and protein nitration.

Jamie M Swanlund, Kevin C Kregel, Terry D Oberley

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Article in Autophagy, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Stem cell-based therapeutic strategies for liver aging.Liver research (Beijing, China) · 2025
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  2. Biomarkers of aging.Science China. Life sciences · 2023
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  7. Hallmarks of Aging in the Liver.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2019
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  12. Hyperammonemia-mediated autophagy in skeletal muscle contributes to sarcopenia of cirrhosis.American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism · 2012
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  15. Autophagy, protein aggregation and hyperthermia: a mini-review.International journal of hyperthermia : the official journal of European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology, North American Hyperthermia Group · 2011
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jamie M SwanlundDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA.
Kevin C Kregel
Terry D Oberley
William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital · US

Funding

OXIDATIVE STRESS AND AGING--INTEGRATED MECHANISMSR01AG012350 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI KREGEL, KEVIN CRAIG · 1998 to 2006
$2.4M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG012350
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stress can originate from a variety of sources (e.g., physical, chemical, etc.,) and cause protein denaturation, DNA damage and possibly death. In an effort to prevent such deleterious consequences, most organisms possess one or more ways to counteract or even prevent the harmful effect(s) from a given stressor. Such compensation by an organism is known as a stress response; this involves inhibition of housekeeping genes and subsequent activation of genes associated with the stress response. One of the most widely studied groups of stress response genes is a family of molecular chaperones known as heat shock proteins (HSPs). Work from our laboratory agrees with many other studies showing an age-related decline in stress-induced synthesis of HSPs. A decline in the availability and/or function of HSPs with age can lead to accumulation of damaged proteins, which in turn damages cells. Recently, our laboratory found a significant increase in mitochondrial damage as well as evidence of increased autophagy in rat hepatocytes following heat stress. These results, along with findings of increased protein nitration with age, suggest a major role for reactive nitrogen species (RNS) in both the decline in HSP induction and increased hepatocyte pathology observed in old rats following heat stress.

Indexed as

AutophagyAgingAnimalsHeat-Shock ProteinsHeat Stress DisordersHepatocytesRatsReactive Nitrogen SpeciesHeat-Shock ProteinsReactive Nitrogen Species

Identifiers

PMID18758235
PMCPMC2577755
OpenAlexW1999087707

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