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Macroautophagy/autophagy is a constitutively active catabolic lysosomal degradation pathway, often found dysregulated in human diseases. It is often considered to act in a cytoprotective manner and is commonly upregulated in cells undergoing stress. Its initiation is regulated at the protein level and does not require
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