Phagocytosis, it turns out, is an important immune defence in all living things.
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Foreign DNA enters the cell by endocytosis, phagocytosis, infection, or other means.
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Therefore, active clearance of inflammatory infiltrates by phagocytosis is required.
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Phagocytosis of bacteria by human neutrophils takes on average nine minutes.
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An essential role for RIG-I in Toll-like receptor-stimulated phagocytosis.
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Titan cells confer protection from phagocytosis in Cryptococcus neoformans infections.
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A phagosome is a vacuole formed around a particle absorbed by phagocytosis.
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Phagocytosis of other particles and bacteria occur by other mechanisms independent of Mer.
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Recent data demonstrate that phagocytosis alone induces cell death.
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Process in which phagocytes engulf and digest microorganisms and cellular debris; an important defense against infection
(phagocytic) capable of functioning as a phagocyte
Phagocytosis (from Greek phago, meaning eating, cyte, meaning vessel, and osis meaning process) is the cellular process of engulfing solid particles by the cell membrane to form an internal phagosome by phagocytes and protists. ...
Phagocytes are the white blood cells that protect the body by ingesting (phagocytosing) harmful foreign particles, bacteria, and dead or dying cells. ...
The process where a cell incorporates a particle by extending pseudopodia and drawing the particle into a vacuole of its cytoplasm
(phagocytosed) engulfed and ingested as a result of phagocytosis
(phagocytic) relating to a cell that engulfs and destroys foreign matter
The engulfment of a particle or a microorganism by leukocytes.
The ingestion of visible particles of food by enclosing them with a membrane to form a food vacuole.