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ArticleAutophagy2020

Autophagy: an essential but limited cellular process for timely skeletal muscle recovery from injury.

Jarrod A Call, Anna S Nichenko

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Article in Autophagy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Traumatic Skeletal Muscle Injury and Recovery.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025
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  12. Effects of Copy Number Variations in the Plectin (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023
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  16. Autophagy in muscle regeneration: potential therapies for myopathies.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jarrod A CallDepartment of Kinesiology, University of Georgia , Athens, GA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1094-4940
Anna S NichenkoDepartment of Kinesiology, University of Georgia , Athens, GA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Macroautophagy/autophagy induction, i.e., the formation of autophagosomes, is robust following many forms of muscle injury. Autophagy inhibition studies strongly indicate that autophagy is necessary for successful muscle fiber recovery. Now, there are accumulating pieces of evidence indicating that autophagosome clearance, i.e., autophagy flux, does not increase to match the burden of accumulating damaged proteins and organelles after muscle fiber damage, creating a bottleneck effect. Some potential consequences of the bottleneck effect are reduced regenerative capacity marked by the inadequate activation of muscle stem cells (i.e., satellite cells) and a lesser commitment toward differentiation due to a deficiency in energetic substrates and/or molecular signaling pathways. These findings highlight an emerging area of investigation for both autophagy and muscle regeneration fields. The identification of the molecular mechanisms governing autophagy and autophagy flux may serve as targets for future therapies to enhance the recovery of its function in healthy and diseased muscle. ABBREVIATIONS: BNIP3: BCL2/adenovirus E1B interacting protein 3; CQ: chloroquine; DMD: Duchenne muscular dystrophy; MAP1LC3/LC3: microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3; ULK1: unc-51 like kinase 1.

Indexed as

AutophagyAnimalsAutophagosomesInflammationLysosomesMiceMuscle, SkeletalTime FactorsMitochondriamitophagymuscle regenerationmuscle strengthsatellite celltwo-photon microscopyULK1

Identifiers

PMID32267791
PMCPMC7469477

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