Autophagy is a ubiquitous and highly conserved catabolic process,
which involves intracellular degradation of cytoplasmic components
through a lysosomal pathway. The process is involved in a variety
of mechanisms related to ageing, including mitochondrial turnover,
removal of misfolded protein aggregates and apoptosis. It has
been proposed that age-related alterations in autophagy might play
a major role in sarcopenia (