Research progress of autophagy for cancer treatment
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1007-8118.2012.11.025
- VernacularTitle:自噬在肿瘤治疗中的研究进展
- Author:
Hui TONG
;
Weiping YANG
;
Weihua QIU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Autophagy;
Cancer;
Cancer treatment;
Progress
- From:
Chinese Journal of Hepatobiliary Surgery
2012;(11):886-888
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Autophagy is a vacuolar process of cytoplasmic degradation by lysosomes which ubiquitously occur in all eukaryotic cells.Heightened autophagy is a mechanism of resistance for cancer cells faced with metabolic and therapeutic stress,revealing opportunities for exploitation as a therapeutic target in cancer treament.This article reviews the mechanism of autophagy in cancer and its role for cancer treatment.
