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Autophagy (or autophagocytosis; from the Greek ?????????, , meaning "self-devouring" and ?????, , meaning "hollow") is the natural, conserved degradation of a biological cell that removes unnecessary or dysfunctional components through a lysosome-dependent regulated mechanism. It allows the orderly degradation and recycling of cellular components. Although initially characterized as a primordial degradation pathway induced to protect against

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