Pharmacological modulation of autophagy: therapeutic potential and persisting obstacles

L Galluzzi, JM Bravo-San Pedro, B Levine… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2017 - nature.com
Autophagy is central to the maintenance of organismal homeostasis in both physiological
and pathological situations. Accordingly, alterations in autophagy have been linked to …

Therapeutic targeting of autophagy in disease: biology and pharmacology

Y Cheng, X Ren, WN Hait, JM Yang - Pharmacological reviews, 2013 - ASPET
Autophagy, a process of self-digestion of the cytoplasm and organelles through which
cellular components are recycled for reuse or energy production, is an evolutionarily …

Autophagy: a druggable process that is deregulated in aging and human disease

G Kroemer - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2015 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Autophagy (“self-eating”) constitutes one of the most spectacular yet subtly regulated
phenomena in cell biology. Similarly to cell division, differentiation, and death, autophagy is …

Targeting autophagy in disease: established and new strategies

M Kocak, S Ezazi Erdi, G Jorba, I Maestro, J Farrés… - Autophagy, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Macroautophagy/autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved pathway responsible for clearing
cytosolic aggregated proteins, damaged organelles or invading microorganisms …

Pharmacologic agents targeting autophagy

H Vakifahmetoglu-Norberg, H Xia… - The Journal of clinical …, 2015 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Autophagy is an important intracellular catabolic mechanism critically involved in regulating
tissue homeostasis. The implication of autophagy in human diseases and the need to …

Autophagy: a druggable process

E Morel, M Mehrpour, J Botti, N Dupont… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Macroautophagy (hereafter called autophagy) is a vacuolar, lysosomal pathway for
catabolism of intracellular material that is conserved among eukaryotic cells. Autophagy …

Potential therapeutic applications of autophagy

DC Rubinsztein, JE Gestwicki, LO Murphy… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2007 - nature.com
Autophagy is a dynamic process of subcellular degradation, which has recently sparked
great interest as it is now recognized to be involved in various developmental processes and …

Autophagy modulators: mechanistic aspects and drug delivery systems

S Tavakol, M Ashrafizadeh, S Deng, M Azarian… - Biomolecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Autophagy modulation is considered to be a promising programmed cell death mechanism
to prevent and cure a great number of disorders and diseases. The crucial step in designing …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging role of selective autophagy in human diseases

K Mizumura, AMK Choi, SW Ryter - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Autophagy was originally described as a highly conserved system for the degradation of
cytosol through a lysosome-dependent pathway. In response to starvation, autophagy …

Development of autophagy inducers in clinical medicine

B Levine, M Packer, P Codogno - The Journal of clinical …, 2015 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Defects in autophagy have been linked to a wide range of medical illnesses, including
cancer as well as infectious, neurodegenerative, inflammatory, and metabolic diseases …