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What does phagocytosis mean?

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  1. (immunology) The process where a cell incorporates a particle by extending pseudopodia and drawing the particle into a vacuole of its cytoplasm.
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In addition, these ligands markedly upregulated production of CD36, a scavenger receptor that regulates phagocytosis of apoptotic neutrophils.
In the studies cited, only the intensity of fluorescence was used to observe the metabolism, exocytosis and phagocytosis of cells.
As the bacteria are released from the newly lysed cell, more macrophages begin the process of phagocytosis, and the cycle continues.
Some giant cells exhibited phagocytosis of mononuclear tumor cells and leukocytes such as lymphocytes and polymorphonuclear cells.
Fc receptors mediate various effects on immune cells, including proliferation of B cells and phagocytosis by phagocytes.
The leukocytes eventually destroy the pathogens by phagocytosis and lysosomal fusion that expose bacteria to lytic enzymes.

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