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ReviewAutophagy2013

Autophagy in stem cells.

Jun-Lin Guan, Anna Katharina Simon, Mark Prescott, Javier A Menendez, Fei Liu, Fen Wang, Chenran Wang, Ernst Wolvetang, Alejandro Vazquez-Martin, Jue Zhang

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In one paragraph

Review in Autophagy, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 166 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
166citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
19.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

166 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 283 citations in OpenAlex.

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106 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

10 authors at 6 institutions in 7 countries.

Jun-Lin GuanDivision of Molecular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. lguan@umich.edu
Anna Katharina Simon
Mark Prescott
Javier A Menendez
Fei Liu
Fen Wang
Chenran Wang
Ernst Wolvetang
Alejandro Vazquez-Martin
Jue Zhang
Institute of Molecular Medicine · INTranslational Research Institute · AUAnn Arbor Center for Independent Living · USInstitute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology · SGMonash University · AUUniversity of Michigan–Ann Arbor · US

Funding

SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION BY FAK AND ITS ASSOCIATED PROTEINSR01GM052890 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI GUAN, JUN-LIN · 1995 to 2012
$3.3M
The Mechanisms of Bone Mass Regulation by FIP200R01AR062030 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI LIU, FEI · 2012 to 2016
$1.7M
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/G021422/1NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR062030NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM052890
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autophagy is a highly conserved cellular process by which cytoplasmic components are sequestered in autophagosomes and delivered to lysosomes for degradation. As a major intracellular degradation and recycling pathway, autophagy is crucial for maintaining cellular homeostasis as well as remodeling during normal development, and dysfunctions in autophagy have been associated with a variety of pathologies including cancer, inflammatory bowel disease and neurodegenerative disease. Stem cells are unique in their ability to self-renew and differentiate into various cells in the body, which are important in development, tissue renewal and a range of disease processes. Therefore, it is predicted that autophagy would be crucial for the quality control mechanisms and maintenance of cellular homeostasis in various stem cells given their relatively long life in the organisms. In contrast to the extensive body of knowledge available for somatic cells, the role of autophagy in the maintenance and function of stem cells is only beginning to be revealed as a result of recent studies. Here we provide a comprehensive review of the current understanding of the mechanisms and regulation of autophagy in embryonic stem cells, several tissue stem cells (particularly hematopoietic stem cells), as well as a number of cancer stem cells. We discuss how recent studies of different knockout mice models have defined the roles of various autophagy genes and related pathways in the regulation of the maintenance, expansion and differentiation of various stem cells. We also highlight the many unanswered questions that will help to drive further research at the intersection of autophagy and stem cell biology in the near future.

Indexed as

AutophagyAnimalsCell DifferentiationHumansMitophagyModels, BiologicalStem Cellsautophagycancer stem cellsembryonic stem cellstissue stem cells

Identifiers

PMID23486312
PMCPMC3672294
OpenAlexW2014368894

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