“…This compensatory activation is able to mitigate energy loss and clean damaged mitochondria and protein aggregates (Yan et al, 2005;Hongxin et al, 2007). Taking acute myocardial infarction as an example, most previous studies report that autophagy is activated in the border zone of acute MI (Chiang et al, 2017;Wu et al, 2017); however, the impaired proteins and organelles, formed as aggresomes, and/or the autophagic degradation-related protein p62 are still largely accumulated, suggesting insufficient clearance by autophagy. This is consistent with our finding that autophagy marker LC3 II, together with upstream factors (AMPK, Beclin1, ULK, etc.)…”