Autophagy |
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| Autophagic Cell Death; Autophagic Programmed Cell Death; Autophagy, Cellular; Programmed Cell Death, Type II; Autophagic Cell Deaths; Autophagies; Autophagies, Cellular; Cell Death, Autophagic; Cell Deaths, Autophagic; Cellular Autophagies | |
| The segregation and degradation of damaged or unwanted cytoplasmic constituents by autophagic vacuoles (cytolysosomes) composed of LYSOSOMES containing cellular components in the process of digestion; it plays an important role in BIOLOGICAL METAMORPHOSIS of amphibians, in the removal of bone by osteoclasts, and in the degradation of normal cell components in nutritional deficiency states. | |