Body and drug basics
Mitophagy
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The selective degradation of damaged mitochondria by cells. This process helps maintain mitochondrial quality.
Why it matters here
Where a mechanism entry here describes mitochondrial quality, mitophagy is the process being described. No record in this corpus is graded on a mitophagy measurement.
What it is not
Not autophagy in general, which is the cell clearing anything it no longer wants. Mitophagy is specific to mitochondria.
Also called
- mitophagy
- mitochondrial autophagy
- mitochondrial turnover
Compounds carrying this term
None on file yet. This term is in the controlled vocabulary but no compound record currently uses it — which is a statement about our coverage, not about the term.