Autophagy during ageing – from Dr Jekyll to Mr Hyde

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Autophagy is a ubiquitous catabolic process, which causes cellular bulk degradation through vesicular engulfment of obsolete, damaged or harmful cytoplasmic components. While autophagy regulates cellular homeostasis during development and in youth, there is mounting evidence that autophagy becomes increasingly dysfunctional with age. Recent work in Caenorhabditis elegans even suggests that late-life dysfunctional...

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