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Can autophagy remove cysts? 

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As the damaged proximal tubular cells with intracellular vacuoles form cysts later, we postulated that autophagy may play a role in the cyst formation and examined autophagy activity before and after cyst development in AQP11(−/−) kidneys.
These results suggest the involvement of autophagy in the development and maintenance of kidney cysts in AQP11(−/−) mice.
Abnormal autophagy may lead to tumorigenesis.
As such, autophagy is tumor suppressive.