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. 2020 Mar 19;8(4):438–447. doi: 10.1016/j.gendis.2020.03.003

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Macroautophagy and β cell dysfunction. Macroautophagy is involved in the removal of damaged organelles, including mitochondria, and promotes the degradation of misfolded proteins and protein aggregates, which is the heavy burden of special secretion machines found in β cells.