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Autophagy

Autophagy is a term of Greek origin meaning ‘eating yourself’, the highly conserved cellular mechanism in the recycling of long-lived proteins and damaged organelles. Autophagy is a degradation pathway that functions in all nucleated cells from yeast to humans and has critical importance in maintaining intracellular balance1. It was first discovered in rat liver epithelial […]

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