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macroautophagy in pancreatic acinar cells

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autophagy, macroautophagy

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The abstract frames macroautophagy as a cellular degradation process and investigates its role in pancreatic acinar cells during acute pancreatitis.

Source 1DOIPubMed

What problem it solves

In this paper's mechanistic framing, autophagy is proposed to deliver trypsinogen to the lysosome, enabling its activation early in acute pancreatitis.

Source 1DOIPubMed

Evidence Snippets

To analyze the role of macroautophagy in acute pancreatitis... Unexpectedly, trypsinogen activation was greatly reduced in the absence of autophagy.
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Claim 1mechanistic effectsupports2008Source 1DOIPubMed

Trypsinogen activation is greatly reduced in the absence of autophagy in pancreatic acinar cells.

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Unexpectedly, trypsinogen activation was greatly reduced in the absence of autophagy.
Claim 2mechanistic modelsupports2008Source 1DOIPubMed

Autophagy promotes early acute pancreatitis in pancreatic acinar cells by delivering trypsinogen to the lysosome, where trypsinogen is activated to trypsin.

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These results suggest that autophagy exerts devastating effects in pancreatic acinar cells by activation of trypsinogen to trypsin in the early stage of acute pancreatitis through delivering trypsinogen to the lysosome.
Claim 3mechanistic rolesupports2008Source 1DOIPubMed

Cytoplasmic vacuoles induced in pancreatic acinar cells by experimental pancreatitis are autophagic in origin.

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We found that cytoplasmic vacuoles induced in pancreatic acinar cells by experimental pancreatitis were autophagic in origin, as demonstrated by microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 expression and electron microscopy experiments.