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ReviewCells2019

Autophagy in Neurotrauma: Good, Bad, or Dysregulated.

Junfang Wu, Marta M Lipinski

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Review in Cells, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 82 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

82 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Autophagy activation by the Becn1Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Junfang WuDepartment of Anesthesiology and Center for Shock, Trauma and Anesthesiology Research (STAR), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. junfang.wu@som.umaryland.edu.
Marta M LipinskiDepartment of Anesthesiology and Center for Shock, Trauma and Anesthesiology Research (STAR), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.

Funding

Spinal Mechanisms Underlying SCI-Induced Pain: Implications for Targeted TherapyR01NR013601 · NINR · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI DORSEY, SUSAN G, FADEN, ALAN IRA · 2012 to 2021
$6.0M
The new roles of the autophagy-lysosomal pathway in spinal cord injury-mediated dementiaR01NS094527 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI MARTA M LIPINSKI, Junfang Wu · 2016 to 2026
$3.5M
Targeting brain inflammation and neurocognitive dysfunction in sepsisR01NS110567 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI CHAO, WEI, WU, JUNFANG · 2019 to 2024
$2.5M
Mechanism of Inflammatory Related Brain Dysfunction after Spinal Cord InjuryR01NS110635 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI FADEN, ALAN IRA, WU, JUNFANG · 2019 to 2023
$2.2M
Function and Mechanisms of Autophagy-Lysosomal Pathway in Traumatic Brain InjuryR01NS091218 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI LIPINSKI, MARTA M · 2015 to 2019
$1.8M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS091218NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS094527NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS110635NINR NIH HHS R01 NR013601
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autophagy is a physiological process that helps maintain a balance between the manufacture of cellular components and breakdown of damaged organelles and other toxic cellular constituents. Changes in autophagic markers are readily detectable in the spinal cord and brain following neurotrauma, including traumatic spinal cord and brain injury (SCI/TBI). However, the role of autophagy in neurotrauma remains less clear. Whether autophagy is good or bad is under debate, with strong support for both a beneficial and detrimental role for autophagy in experimental models of neurotrauma. Emerging data suggest that autophagic flux, a measure of autophagic degradation activity, is impaired in injured central nervous systems (CNS), and interventions that stimulate autophagic flux may provide neuroprotection in SCI/TBI models. Recent data demonstrating that neurotrauma can cause lysosomal membrane damage resulting in pathological autophagosome accumulation in the spinal cord and brain further supports the idea that the impairment of the autophagy-lysosome pathway may be a part of secondary injury processes of SCI/TBI. Here, we review experimental work on the complex and varied responses of autophagy in terms of both the beneficial and detrimental effects in SCI and TBI models. We also discuss the existing and developing therapeutic options aimed at reducing the disruption of autophagy to protect the CNS after injuries.

Indexed as

AnimalsApoptosisAutophagyBrainBrain Injuries, TraumaticDisease Models, AnimalHumansLysosomesNeuronsSpinal CordSpinal Cord InjuriesTrauma, Nervous Systemautophagic fluxautophagylysosomal damageneuronal cell deathspinal cord injurytraumatic brain injury

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PMID31295858
PMCPMC6678153

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