Chapter 7, Problem 16PIAT

Summary Introduction

To review:

The conclusion drawn from the results of the given study.

Introduction:

Autophagy is the self-destruction of the damaged cell organelles and cytoplasmic entities in the lysosomes. The phenomenon of autophagy is responsible for the removal of melanosomes by lysosomal destruction. A research group investigated the role of the autophagy on the skin color with the help of drugs that will either inhibit autophagy or induce autophagy in the cells. The graph illustrates the comparison between the level of the melanin in the samples that are treated with drugs and the untreated control sample.  P value is given as *P<0.05, &P**lt;0.01. The graph below shows the comparison between the levels of melanin in the treated sample with the untreated control sample.