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SUBMITTER: Belgrad J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6948934 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Belgrad Jillian J De Pace Raffaella R Fields R Douglas RD
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20191119 2
Autophagy is the cellular process involved in transportation and degradation of membrane, proteins, pathogens, and organelles. This fundamental cellular process is vital in development, plasticity, and response to disease and injury. Compared with neurons, little information is available on autophagy in glia, but it is paramount for glia to perform their critical responses to nervous system disease and injury, including active tissue remodeling and phagocytosis. In myelinating glia, autophagy ha ...[more]