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ReviewCellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS2017

The cellular autophagy/apoptosis checkpoint during inflammation.

Jeannette S Messer

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In one paragraph

Review in Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed
7.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 77 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jeannette S MesserDepartment of Medicine, Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery, University of Chicago, 900 E. 57th Street, 9th Floor, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA. jmesser@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu.
University of Chicago · US

Funding

ULTRASTRUCTURE AND CYTOMORPHOLOGY COREP30DK042086 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI CHANG, EUGENE B · 1990 to 2025
$29.8M
NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK042086
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cell death is a major determinant of inflammatory disease severity. Whether cells live or die during inflammation largely depends on the relative success of the pro-survival process of autophagy versus the pro-death process of apoptosis. These processes interact and influence each other during inflammation and there is a checkpoint at which cells irrevocably commit to either one pathway or another. This review will discuss the concept of the autophagy/apoptosis checkpoint and its importance during inflammation, the mechanisms of inflammation leading up to the checkpoint, and how the checkpoint is regulated. Understanding these concepts is important since manipulation of the autophagy/apoptosis checkpoint represents a novel opportunity for treatment of inflammatory diseases caused by too much or too little cell death.

Indexed as

ApoptosisAutophagyApoptosis Regulatory ProteinsAutophagy-Related ProteinsCalpainCaspasesHMGB ProteinsHumansInflammationApoptosis Regulatory ProteinsAutophagy-Related ProteinsCalpainCaspasesHMGB ProteinsAtg5Beclin-1CalpainCaspaseHMGB1

Identifiers

PMID27837217
PMCPMC11107496
OpenAlexW2553361440

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