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PHAGOCYTOSIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Process in which phagocytes engulf and digest microorganisms and cellular debris; an important defense against infection
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("phagocytosis" is a kind of...):
activity; bodily function; bodily process; body process (an organic process that takes place in the body)
Context examples:
This allele, which encodes low affinity immunoglobulin gamma Fc region receptor III-A protein, is involved in the modulation of neutrophil interactions, phagocytosis, and cellular cytotoxicity responses.
(FCGR3A wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene plays a role in the mediation of antibody-dependent cytotoxicity and phagocytosis.
(FCGR3A Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene is involved in the initiation of host immune responses against pathogens and phagocytosis.
(FCGR2C Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
It is involved in neutrophil chemotaxis and phagocytosis.
(CD15 Antigen, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene plays a role in phagocytosis and signal transduction.
(ELMO1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
The microglia then create a cup-like structure over a single photoreceptor, surrounding it to ingest it in a process called phagocytosis.
(In blinding eye disease, trash-collecting cells go awry, accelerate damage, NIH)
Further tests showed that the transplanted RPE cells were pruning photoreceptors via phagocytosis, another RPE function that helps keep photoreceptors healthy.
(Researchers rescue photoreceptors, prevent blindness in animal models of retinal degeneration, National Institutes of Health)
Syk kinase, widely expressed in hematopoietic cells, is a nonreceptor tyrosine kinase that is involved in coupling activated immunoreceptors to signal downstream events that mediate diverse cellular responses, including proliferation, differentiation, and phagocytosis.
(Fostamatinib, NCI Thesaurus)
A rare but potentially life-threatening disorder characterized by the proliferation of histiocytes and macrophages and phagocytosis of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.
(Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, NCI Thesaurus)
They pieced together that C3 gets secreted by microglia, trash-collecting cells that in a healthy retina clear away dead cells by phagocytosis to keep the tissue working properly.
(Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease, National Institutes of Health)
