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ArticleJournal of biomedical research2017

Complex role of autophagy in regulation of hepatic lipid and lipoprotein metabolism.

Mostafa Zamani, Jennifer Taher, Khosrow Adeli

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Article in Journal of biomedical research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. From lipid overload to autophagy collapse: how lipid dysregulation drives chronic inflammation and metabolic disease.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2026
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  6. Lipophagy: A New Perspective of Natural Products in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Treatment.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mostafa ZamaniMolecular Structure and Function, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON M5G 1X8, Canada.
Jennifer TaherMolecular Structure and Function, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON M5G 1X8, Canada.
Khosrow AdeliMolecular Structure and Function, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON M5G 1X8, Canada.
University of Toronto · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Discovering new therapeutic interventions to treat lipid and lipoprotein disorders is of great interest and the discovery of autophagy as a regulator of lipid metabolism has opened up new avenues for targeting modulators of this pathway. Autophagy is a degradative process that targets cellular components to the lysosome and recent studies have indicated a role for autophagy in regulating hepatic lipid metabolism (known as lipophagy) as well as lipoprotein assembly. Autophagy directly targets apolipoprotein B-100 (apoB100), the structural protein component of very low-density lipoproteins (VLDLs), and further targets lipid droplets (LDs), the cellular storage for neutral lipids. Autophagy thus plays a complex and dual role in VLDL particle assembly by regulating apoB100 degradation as well as aiding the maturation of VLDL particles by hydrolyzing lipid from LDs. The purpose of this article is to review our current understanding of molecular and cellular mechanisms mediating authophagic control of hepatic lipid biogenesis and VLDL production as well as dysregulation in insulin resistance and dyslipidemia.

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PMID27346467
PMCPMC5706430
OpenAlexW2464216456

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