De Duve named these new organelles "lysosomes" to reflect their lytic nature. That same year, Alex Novikoff from the University of Vermont visited de Duve´s laboratory. An experienced ...

In brief, autophagy is a ubiquitous process in eukaryotic cells that results in the breakdown of cytoplasm within the lysosome in response to stress conditions and that allows the cell to adapt to ...

Fats and other cellular materials reach the lysosome through three main pathways: endocytosis, phagocytosis, and autophagy. In endocytosis, the cell takes in materials from outside by wrapping ...