autophagocytosis


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Related to autophagocytosis: Autophagolysosome, autophagosome

autophagy

The catabolism of the cell by its own enzymes due to the unleashing of the lysosome’s digestive machinery.
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autophagocytosis

(ot?o-fag?o-si-to'sis, -si-) [ auto- + phagocytosis]
In a cell, the digestion of portions of cell organelles or mitochondria injured or atrophied. This digestive process is essential to the survival of the cell.
See: endocytosis; phagocytosis; pinocytosis
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LC3 protein, which is a biochemical marker for autophagic cells (Tanida 2011), was used to obtain independent evidence supporting the conclusion that WK triggers autophagocytosis. WK-treated cells demonstrated an intense, punctuate fluorescence pattern as positive control HCQ.
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There also exist data suggesting that the abnormality in axonal transport might stimulate the formation of, or enhance the accumulation of, A[beta] [134, 137], through autophagocytosis of mitochondria without normal lysosomal degradation [137].
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