Autophagy (IMAGE)

Salk Institute

Autophagy

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When the process of autophagy is defective, cells are unable to recycle cellular organelles such as mitochondria (shown in red) to generate molecular building blocks when needed. Cell nuclei are shown in blue.

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Daniel Egan, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

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