phagocytosis

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6] [7] * Vitamin D affects the immune system by promoting phagocytosis, anti-tumor activity, and immunomodulatory functions.

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  1. noun The engulfing and ingestion of bacteria or other foreign bodies by phagocytes.

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  • The discovery of this link between the two mechanisms-phagocytosis (engulfing germs) and autophagy (housekeeping) - suggests that a common mechanism that triggers both processes individually also links them by using a common set of signals.
  • Unlike other chordates, lancelets are capable of phagocytosis, a digestive process in which individual cells consume food particles.
  • Bloomfield G, Balest A, Balbo A, Pergolizzi B, et al. (2008) Genome-wide transcriptional changes induced by phagocytosis or growth on bacteria in —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Finnemann SC, Rodriguez-Boulan E (1999) Macrophage and retinal pigment epithelium phagocytosis: apoptotic cells and photoreceptors compete for alphavbeta3 and alphavbeta5 integrins, and protein kinase C regulates alphavbeta5 binding and cytoskeletal linkage. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • The effects of PI3K inhibitors on L. pneumophila phagocytosis were examined as described previously —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
 

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