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autolipophagy

autolipophagy noun: the autophagy of autolipophagosomes.

Noun

autolipophagy (uncountable)

  1. The autophagy of autolipophagosomes
    • The authors suggested that autophagy is a basal mechanism for lipid metabolism and that autolipophagy could be a primary mechanism for cell survival in stress conditions [26 ].2015 October 29, “Lipid-Laden Multilocular Cells in the Aging Thymus Are Phenotypically Heterogeneous”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of autolipophagy

From auto- + lipophagy.

Questions about autolipophagy

What does autolipophagy mean?
Autolipophagy means the autophagy of autolipophagosomes.
What part of speech is autolipophagy?
Autolipophagy is a noun.

Words near autolipophagy in the dictionary

  1. autolimnetic
  2. autolinguonym
  3. autolinguonyms
  4. autolipophagosome
  5. autolipophagosomes
  6. autolipophagy
  7. autolith
  8. autolithic
  9. autolithified
  10. autolithify
  11. autolithograph

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