The word autophagy is derived from the Greek roots “auto”(self) and “phagy”(eating) and
broadly refers to the cellular catabolic processes, in which cytoplasmic materials are …

Autophagy is a dynamic process of subcellular degradation, which has recently sparked
great interest as it is now recognized to be involved in various developmental processes and …

Although only 4 years have passed since the second edition of Autophagy—Biology and
Diseases was published in 2015, basic and clinical studies of autophagy have developed …

Since Ashford and Porter first discovered that cells “eat themselves” in 1962, the process
known as autophagy has generated intense interest in both biomedical research and clinical …

After coining the term 'autophagy'by Dr. Christian De Duve in 1967 during a study using
glucagon-perfused liver (Deter and de Duve, 1967), researches on autophagy was slow …

Autophagy is the major intracellular degradation system, by which cytoplasmic materials are
delivered to and degraded in the lysosome. As a quality control mechanism for cytoplasmic …

In addition to tumors and aging that are associated with autophagy, many other diseases are
also regulated by autophagy, including liver disease, myopathy, immune pathogen infection …

Autophagy is a physiological process which delivers the mutant cytoplasmic proteins and
dysfunctional subcellular organs into lysosomes for degradation to generate fuel in the …

Autophagy Processes and Mechanisms details the process of autophagy and its
significance in diseases and aging. It provides insights into autophagy mechanisms and …

There are two main pathways of protein degradation in vivo: proteasome and lysosome. As
a conserved intracellular process, autophagy delivers cargoes such as proteins or …