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Autophagy-dependent cell death – where, how and why a cell eats itself to death
15 Sept 2018
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Autophagy as a means of cell killing was first advanced by Clark's phenotypic description of 'Type II autophagic cell death' in 1990. However, this phenomenon later came into question, because the presence of autophagosomes in dying cells does not necessarily signify that autophagy is the cause of demise, but rather may reflect the efforts of the cell to prevent it. Resolution of this issue comes from a more...
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