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- In cellular biology, pinocytosis, otherwise known as fluid endocytosis and bulk-phase pinocytosis, is a mode of endocytosis in which small molecules dissolved...
- form a vesicle containing the ingested materials. Endocytosis includes pinocytosis (cell drinking) and phagocytosis (cell eating). It is a form of active...
- cell membrane. The two major types of endocytosis are pinocytosis and phagocytosis. Pinocytosis, also known as cell drinking, is the absorption of small...
- enzymes, then digest the particles within the food vacuole.: 139–140  In pinocytosis, a cell takes in ("gulps") extracellular fluid into vesicles, which are...
- material in the membrane-enclosed vacuole and the cell membrane intact. Pinocytosis ("cell drinking") is essentially the same process, the difference being...
- leaf-like and oval in outline and covered by thin pellicle. Nutrition is by pinocytosis. There are several small, spherical and similar sized nuclei present...
- acetylcholine receptor. The cellular membrane pinches in a procession known as pinocytosis and allows entry of the virus into the cell by way of an endosome. The...
- receptor- independent uptake processes of phagocytosis, micro- and macro-pinocytosis, or receptor-dependent processes and then transported along the mesangial...
- Biologists distinguish two main types of endocytosis: pinocytosis and phagocytosis. In pinocytosis, cells engulf liquid particles (in humans this process...
- cell Emperipolesis Endosymbionts in protists Paracytophagy Phagoptosis Pinocytosis Residual body Cell wall Tauber, A. I. (1992). "The birth of immunology...