Journal
APOPTOSIS
Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 321-333Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10495-011-0589-x
Keywords
Apoptosis; Autophagy; Cancer; Cell death
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- Retina France
- Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia, Italy
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Drug resistance of cancer cells is often correlated with apoptosis evasion; however, an active involvement of autophagy in this scenario has been recently proposed, based on the evidence that autophagy could exert a protective role toward the activation of apoptosis in cancer cells. In this review, we briefly review the basic features of apoptosis, and we describe in details the molecular patterns of autophagy, with a special emphasis on its still controversial physiological function(s). The crucial factors governing the cross talk between autophagy and apoptosis will be illustrated.
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