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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Amino Acids. 2017 May 6;49(12):1965–1979. doi: 10.1007/s00726-017-2429-y

Fig. 1. Roles of autophagy in metabolic homeostasis.

Fig. 1

Autophagy plays a key role in hepatic metabolic homeostasis in three ways: nutrient recycle, clearance of abnormal organelles and toxic protein aggregates, and regulation of the level of metabolic factors.