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UK
/fˌæɡəsɪtˈəʊsɪs/
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NOUN
- process in which phagocytes engulf and digest microorganisms and cellular debris; an important defense against infection
How To Use phagocytosis In A Sentence
- Fc receptors mediate various effects on immune cells, including proliferation of B cells and phagocytosis by phagocytes.
- Fc receptors mediate various effects on immune cells, including proliferation of B cells and phagocytosis by phagocytes.
- Methods: To determine macrophage phagocytosis, hemolysin antibody and cell proliferation and B lymphocytes.
- Methods: To determine macrophage phagocytosis, hemolysin antibody and cell proliferation of T and B lymphocytes.
- In laboratory tests, Dr. Ghoneum exposed cancer cells to yeast and observed as they ingested the yeast-through a process known as phagocytosis-and then the cancer cells died. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
- Use the Giemsa staining method to detect the mouses peritoneal macrophages phagocytosis function.
- This is quickly converted to Hgb dimers that bind to haptoglobin and are transported to the liver, where they are metabolized in the same manner as products from RBC removed by phagocytosis.
- In vitro tests of immune function in avian wildlife include proliferation of lymphocytes in response to various mitogens and phagocytosis of fluorescent particles by monocytes.
- Weakened resistance to infection is caused by decreased antibody and complement production, leukocyte phagocytosis and intracellular killing, and macrophage phagocytosis.
- This removal of apoptotic neutrophils by macrophage phagocytosis is a critical process for the resolution of inflammation.