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ReviewCells2017

Approaches for Studying Autophagy in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Yanfang Chen, Vincent Scarcelli, Renaud Legouis

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In one paragraph

Review in Cells, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
31citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

31 citing papers in PubMed, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. The role of autophagy in protozoan infections.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026
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  6. Developing Endogenous Autophagy Reporters inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  9. A Brief Review on Caenorhabditis elegans Role in Modelling Neurodegenerative Disease.Central nervous system agents in medicinal chemistry · 2025
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  13. Autophagy and regulation of aquaporins in the kidneys.Kidney research and clinical practice · 2023
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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 3 institutions in 1 country.

Yanfang ChenInstitute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France. yanfang.chen@i2bc.paris-saclay.fr.
Vincent ScarcelliInstitute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France. vincent.scarcelli@i2bc.paris-saclay.fr.
Renaud LegouisInstitute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France. renaud.legouis@i2bc.paris-saclay.fr.
CEA Paris-Saclay · FRInstitut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule · FRLaboratoire de Biologie et Modélisation de la Cellule · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Macroautophagy (hereafter referred to as autophagy) is an intracellular degradative process, well conserved among eukaryotes. By engulfing cytoplasmic constituents into the autophagosome for degradation, this process is involved in the maintenance of cellular homeostasis. Autophagy induction triggers the formation of a cup-shaped double membrane structure, the phagophore, which progressively elongates and encloses materials to be removed. This double membrane vesicle, which is called an autophagosome, fuses with lysosome and forms the autolysosome. The inner membrane of the autophagosome, along with engulfed compounds, are degraded by lysosomal enzymes, which enables the recycling of carbohydrates, amino acids, nucleotides, and lipids. In response to various factors, autophagy can be induced for non-selective degradation of bulk cytoplasm. Autophagy is also able to selectively target cargoes and organelles such as mitochondria or peroxisome, functioning as a quality control system. The modification of autophagy flux is involved in developmental processes such as resistance to stress conditions, aging, cell death, and multiple pathologies. So, the use of animal models is essential for understanding these processes in the context of different cell types throughout the entire lifespan. For almost 15 years, the nematode

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aggrephagyC. eleganselectron microscopygeneticsin vivo imagingLGG-1LGG-2mitophagy

Identifiers

PMID28867808
PMCPMC5617973
OpenAlexW2753618576

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