endocytosis. A cell that performs phagocytosis is called a phagocyte. In a multicellular organism's immune system, phagocytosis is a major mechanism used to...
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Neutrophil (section Phagocytosis)
damage to the host during inflammation. Neutrophils will be removed after phagocytosis of pathogens by macrophages. PECAM-1 and phosphatidylserine on the cell...
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Phagocyte (section Phagocytosis)
"professional" or "non-professional" depending on how effective they are at phagocytosis. The professional phagocytes include many types of white blood cells...
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Macrophage (section Phagocytosis)
among others, recognize pathogens for phagocytosis. Macrophages can also recognize pathogens for phagocytosis indirectly through opsonins, which are...
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his case macrophages) eat cell that the role of phagocytosis in immunity was realised. Phagocytosis was first observed as a process by which unicellular...
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Antibody opsonization (redirect from Antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis)
Antibody opsonization is a process by which a pathogen is marked for phagocytosis through coating of a target cell with antibodies. Immunoglobulins participate...
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phagosome is a vesicle formed around a particle engulfed by a phagocyte via phagocytosis. Professional phagocytes include macrophages, neutrophils, and dendritic...
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that specialise in phagocytosis, i.e. cellular eating). Different types of things ("targets") can be tagged by opsonins for phagocytosis, including: pathogens...
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(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...
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Cytosis (section Phagocytosis)
is still a continuous non-triggered event, unlike phagocytosis, which is explained below. Phagocytosis, also known as cell eating, is the absorption of...
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