Cellular and Molecular Connections between Autophagy and Inflammation

• Main Authors: Pierre Lapaquette (Author), Jean Guzzo (Author), Lionel Bretillon (Author), Marie-Agnès Bringer (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Autophagy is an intracellular catabolic pathway essential for the recycling of proteins and larger substrates such as aggregates, apoptotic corpses, or long-lived and superfluous organelles whose accumulation could be toxic for cells. Because of its unique feature to engulf part of cytoplasm in doub...