Term: heart mitophagy
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Name: heart
Synonyms:
Definition: Blood pumping organ composed of four components: sinus venosus, atrium, cardiac ventricle and bulbus arteriosus.
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000114]
Name: mitophagy
Synonyms: macromitophagy
Definition: The selective autophagy process in which a mitochondrion is degraded by macroautophagy.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0000423]    QuickGO    AmiGO