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Meaning of autofagia



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

autofagia
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Nutrition that certain living organisms perform at the expense of their less useful organs as a means of survival in the face of prolonged fasting Autophagy is a highly preserved catabolic process in eukaryotes, in which cytoplasm, including excess or aberrant organelles are abducted into double membrane vesicles and released into the lysosome/vacuole for decomposition and eventual recycling of the resulting macromolecules. It is the medical way of calling the process of being nourished by food or energy reserves that are held after a prolonged fast. Expenditure or consumption of energy reserves .

  



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

Nutrition that certain living organisms perform at the expense of its less useful bodies as a means of survival before a prolonged fasting. Autophagy is a catabolic process highly conserved in eukaryotes, in which the cytoplasm, including excess organelles or those damaged or aberrant, are abducted in double membrane vesicles and released within the lysosome/vacuole for breakdown and eventual recycling of the resulting macromolecules.

  

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Felipe Lorenzo del Río

Medical and biology term coined by Christian de Duve Belgian biochemist in 1963, derived from the Greek autos, self and fagomai, eat, action eat itself. Some living organisms on his less useful organs perform this form of nurture is exceptionally to survive in situations of prolonged need. The cellular Autophagy is a process studied by Japanese biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi, so Nobel of Medicine received the award last year. The protagonists of this process are some organelles of the cell called Lysosomes that digest and recycle others parts damaged and of undone.

  










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