Autophagic intracellular digestion

Elucidate autophagic intracellular digestion? Why is this kind of intracellular digestions intensified in an organism undergo starvation?

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Autophagic intra-cellular digestion is the cellular internal digestion of residual and waste materials. In common it is completed by lysosomes. Autophagic intracellular digestion is intensified in conditions of starvation since in such situation the cell tries to receive from its own constituent materials the nutrients essential to stay alive.

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