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Autophagy and human diseases.
Cell research - 1 Jan 2014
Jiang Peidu, Mizushima Noboru
Abstract excerpt
Autophagy is a major intracellular degradative process that delivers cytoplasmic materials to the lysosome for degradation. Since the discovery of autophagy-related (Atg) genes in the 1990s, there has been a proliferation of studies on the physiological and pathological roles of autophagy in a variety of autophagy knockout models. However, direct evidence of the connections between ATG gene dysfunction and human...
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