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The Importance of Autophagy
Autophagy is a form of cellular recycling, cleaning out accumulated junk in the cell and repurposing it for or disposing of it. Impaired autophagy has also been linked to Alzheimer's disease-related pathology. Mice who lack one specific autophagy gene succumbed to neurodegeneration within two or three months.