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Figure 6. The relationship between autophagy and extracellular vesicles. Following the formation of the autophagosome through the elongation of the phagophore, the autophagosome fuses with the recycling endosome, late endosome, or lysosome to generate an amphisome. For the degradation of the cargo, the amphisome fuses with a lysosome to create an autolysosome. Late endosomes and recycling endosomes may fuse with the plasma membrane for secretion. Created in BioRender. Ju, J. (2025) https://BioRender.com/iq8sd3z.