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SUBMITTER: Liao SX
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6887802 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan-Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liao Shi-Xia SX Sun Peng-Peng PP Gu Yan-Hui YH Rao Xi-Min XM Zhang Lan-Ying LY Ou-Yang Yao Y
Therapeutic advances in respiratory disease 20190101
Autophagy is a process of cell self-renewal that is dependent on the degradation of the cytoplasmic proteins or organelles of lysosomes. Many diseases, such as metabolic diseases, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and lung diseases, have been confirmed to be associated with elevated or impaired levels of autophagy. At present, studies have found that autophagy participates in the regulation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, ...[more]