Perspective: Role of Autophagy in Neuroprotective Properties of Traditional Chinese Medicines

Abstract

Autophagy is an essential degradation process that sequesters and transfers the idle cytoplasmic materials to the lysosome for digestion and recyclation via the formation of autolysosome . Although both autophagy-lysosomal and ubiquitin-proteasomal pathways are the two principal pathways for cellular protein degradation.