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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Endocrinol Metab. 2009 Oct 24;21(3):142–150. doi: 10.1016/j.tem.2009.10.003

Figure I of Box 1. Types of autophagy in mammalian cells.

Figure I of Box 1

Three different main types of autophagy have been described in mammalian cells: (a) Macroautophagy, (b) Microautophagy, and (c) Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA).