Therapeutic Angiogenesis via Autophagy
November 1, 2016 | Terry Sharrer
Last month, Yoshinori Ohsumi won this year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries about the cellular recycling process known as autophagy. Actually, the 1974 Nobel laureate Christian de Duve coined that term for what happens in lysosomes. Ohsumi’s work identified genes which control autophagy. The two pieces cited here show further how autophagy takes place under the microscope and how a protein, AGGF 1 (for angiogenic factor with G patch and FHA domain 1), induces both autophagy and angiogenesis, suggest this protein might become a therapeutic for treating the greatest killer of human beings, myocardial infarction. MORE and STILL MORE
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