Horning cell self-digestion: Autophagy wins the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved process by which eukaryotic cells eliminate intracellular components via the lysosomal degradation process. This cell self-digestion process was first discovered and morphologically characterized in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The genetic screen studies i...
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Elsevier
2017-02-01
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| Series: | Biomedical Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2319417017300239 |