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Recycling in sight

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Vision requires the continuous recycling of photobleached pigments. An atypical form of a degradative pathway called autophagy seems to participate in this process in retinal pigment epithelial cells.

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Figure 1: Role of autophagy in vision.

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  1. Patricia Boya is in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 28040 Madrid, Spain.,

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  2. Patrice Codogno is in INSERM U845, Necker Growth and Signaling Research Center, Université Paris Descartes, 75014 Paris, France.,

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