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Role of Autophagy in Parkinson's Disease.
Current medicinal chemistry - 1 Jan 2019
Cerri Silvia, Blandini Fabio
Abstract excerpt
Autophagy is an essential catabolic mechanism that delivers misfolded proteins and damaged organelles to the lysosome for degradation. Autophagy pathways include macroautophagy, chaperone-mediated autophagy and microautophagy, each involving different mechanisms of substrate delivery to lysosome. Defects of these pathways and the resulting accumulation of protein aggregates represent a common pathobiological...
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