Authors: Morselli E, Galluzzi L, Kepp O, Criollo A, Maiuri MC, Madeo F PMID: 20157579 PMCID: PMC2815753 DOI: 10.18632/aging.100110 Abstract Although autophagy has widely been conceived as a self-destructive mechanism that causes cell death, accumulating evidence suggests that autophagy usually mediates cytoprotection, thereby avoiding the apoptotic or necrotic demise of stressed cells. Recent evidence produced [...]