Biology Forum Cell Biology phagocytosis

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    • #3695
      ntpt
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      "A particle that has been taken into a cell by phagocytosis is not truly inside the cell." Can someone plz explan this statement??

    • #41260
      victor
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      what it means by ‘inside the cell’ is get surrounded by cytoplasm…phagosome is not inside the cytoplasm, because it’s surrounded by vesicle..

    • #41606

      mmm is that not similar to exocytosis?

    • #41625
      MrMistery
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      Well, if you consider phagocytosis as a form of endocytosis as some authors do, then you can regard as phagocytosis as the reverse of exocytosis. Remember that there a lot of differences in the mechanisms of phagocytosis and endocytosis though…

    • #41772
      tommiekiddy
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      Ingestion and digestion of bacteria and particles by phagocytes.The process by which particulate material is engulfed by a cell. Prominent in predatory protozoa, such as Amoeba proteus, and in certain specialized cells of multicellular animals such as macrophages. (From Greek, phagein, to eat.)

    • #41902
      Dr.Stein
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      quote victor:

      what it means by ‘inside the cell’ is get surrounded by cytoplasm…phagosome is not inside the cytoplasm, because it’s surrounded by vesicle..

      Hmm, as far as I know, phagosome is an endosome or vacuole or vesicle where a bacterium trapped after engulfed by a phagocyte via phagocytosis. It will be digested intracellularly by lysosome that fuses to that vesicle and spill the lysozym there 😕

    • #41918
      MrMistery
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      i think what he meants was it is surrounded by a membrane…

    • #41927
      teroperkele
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      Well, almost all membranes are similar in somekind of fashion, but when cell takes particle inside , the membrane curves inside and thus with help of different proteins(usually chlatrin) , folds up and forms a vesicle which buds inside with help of dynamin-protein. Therefore vesicle is made of the cell membrane, and whats inside comes from ECM. cool it maan! 🙂

    • #41955
      Dr.Stein
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      Yeah, clathrin… from Golgi’s activity 🙂

    • #41962
      tommiekiddy
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      😀 myes y=u are right

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