- endocytosis. A cell that
performs phagocytosis is
called a phagocyte. In a
multicellular organism's
immune system,
phagocytosis is a
major mechanism used to...
- "professional" or "non-professional"
depending on how
effective they are at
phagocytosis. The
professional phagocytes include many
types of
white blood cells...
-
Antibody opsonization is a
process by
which a
pathogen is
marked for
phagocytosis.
Given normal inflammatory cir****stances,
microbial pathogen-****ociated...
-
damage to the host
during inflammation.
Neutrophils will be
removed after phagocytosis of
pathogens by macrophages. PECAM-1 and
phosphatidylserine on the cell...
-
among others,
recognize pathogens for
phagocytosis.
Macrophages can also
recognize pathogens for
phagocytosis indirectly through opsonins,
which are...
-
phagosome is a
vesicle formed around a
particle engulfed by a
phagocyte via
phagocytosis.
Professional phagocytes include macrophages, neutrophils, and dendritic...
- his case macrophages) eat cell that the role of
phagocytosis in
immunity was realised.
Phagocytosis was
first observed as a
process by
which unicellular...
- that
specialise in
phagocytosis, i.e.
cellular eating).
Different types of
things ("targets") can be
tagged by
opsonins for
phagocytosis, including: pathogens...
- (cell drinking) and
phagocytosis (cell eating). It is a form of
active transport. The term was
proposed by De Duve in 1963.
Phagocytosis was
discovered by...
- is
still a
continuous non-triggered event,
unlike phagocytosis,
which is
explained below.
Phagocytosis, also
known as cell eating, is the
absorption of...