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Hematoxylin-eosin staining is a routine histological method that stains nuclei mainly blue-purple with hemalum and stains cytoplasm, extracellular matrix, and many stromal components pink with eosin, allowing tissue architecture, cell morphology, necrosis, inflammation, fibrosis, tumor growth pattern, and treatment-associated injury to be evaluated by light microscopy. In cancer cells, primary neurons, mouse tumor models, intestinal organoids, inflammatory macrophage preparations, and drug-screening tissues, H&E is a morphology assay rather than a molecular assay; it should be interpreted with complementary molecular or immunostaining assays when the biological question concerns specific proteins, RNA levels, ferroptosis, mitophagy, or immune phenotypes.

AMP-activated protein kinase, AMPK, is a conserved cellular energy sensor that responds to reduced cellular energy status and coordinates metabolism by increasing ATP-generating catabolic pathways while suppressing ATP-consuming anabolic processes. In metabolic disease research, the AMPK pathway is experimentally relevant because it regulates hepatic lipid synthesis, fatty acid oxidation, glucose production, skeletal-muscle glucose disposal, mTORC1-linked biosynthesis, autophagy, mitochondrial homeostasis, and whole-body energy balance. The central pathway logic is that energy stress, metformin, exercise-like stimulation, or direct AMPK activators increase AMPKα Thr172 phosphorylation and downstream substrate phosphorylation, including ACC and RAPTOR. Phosphorylation of ACC suppresses lipogenesis and supports fatty acid oxidation, whereas phosphorylation of RAPTOR suppresses mTORC1 signaling and links cellular energy status to growth and protein synthesis control. The pathway is linked