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- Title
Methods for Measuring Autophagy in Mice.
- Authors
Moulis, Manon; Vindis, Cécile
- Abstract
Autophagy is a dynamic intracellular process that mediates the degradation of damaged cytoplasmic components by the lysosome. This process plays important roles in maintaining normal cellular homeostasis and energy balance. Measuring autophagy activity is critical and although the determination of autophagic flux in isolated cells is well documented, there is a need to have reliable and quantitative assays to evaluate autophagy in whole organisms. Because mouse models have been precious in establishing the functional significance of autophagy under physiological or pathological conditions, we present in this chapter a compendium of the current available methods to measure autophagy in mice and discuss their advantages and limitations.
- Subjects
AUTOPHAGY; LYSOSOMES; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN cell membranes; LABORATORY mice
- Publication
Cells (2073-4409), 2017, Vol 6, Issue 2, p14
- ISSN
2073-4409
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/cells6020014