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The AIM center's very own Jingyue Jia et al; publish exciting new research on the role of galectins in autophagy.
A brief snippet - "Gal8 inhibits mTOR activity through its Ragulator-Rag signaling...
Join us for the AIM Center's very first Annual Meeting on Autophagy, on May 22nd, 2018!
CCPG1 Is a Non-canonical Autophagy Cargo Receptor Essential for ER-Phagy and Pancreatic ER Proteostasis
We had the pleasure of having guest speakers Philipp Scherer Ph.D., Vishva Dixit MD, Danielle Sliter Ph.D., and Beth Levine's postdoctoral student - Salwa Sebti, Ph.D.
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| FULLTEXT 06.13.2018
Allergic asthma and obesity are major public health problems in the world. Recent Meta-analysis studies implicated a positive relationship between serum leptin, which is elevated in obese individuals, and the risk of asthma. However, it is not well understood how obesity-associated elevation of...
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| FULLTEXT 06.27.2019
AIM center editorial just came out in the journal Autophagy - about the center in its 2nd year.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15548627.2019.1634444
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| FULLTEXT 01.29.2018
Macroautophagy/autophagy is a fundamental intracellular homeostatic process that is of interest both for its basic biology and for its effect on human physiology in a wide spectrum of conditions and diseases. Autophagy was first appreciated primarily as a metabolic and cytoplasmic quality control...
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| FULLTEXT 06.26.2018
Recently, NIH has funded a center for autophagy research named the Autophagy, Inflammation, and Metabolism (AIM) Center of Biomedical Research Excellence, located at the University of New Mexico Health Science Center (UNM HSC), with aspirations to promote autophagy research locally, nationally, and...
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| FULLTEXT 01.22.2018
Autophagy is conventionally described as a degradative, catabolic pathway and a tributary to the lysosomal system where the cytoplasmic material sequestered by autophagosomes gets degraded. However, autophagosomes or autophagosome-related organelles do not always follow this route. It has recently...