Review Article

The Progress of Mitophagy and Related Pathogenic Mechanisms of the Neurodegenerative Diseases and Tumor

Figure 1

The diagram of mitophagy process [5]. Under stimuli like ROS, lack of nutrition, and cell aging, mitochondria underwent depolarization and then damaged themselves; the damaged mitochondria were packaged into autophagy and fused with lysosomes and then completed the degradation process and maintained the stability of the internal environment.