PHAGOCYTOSIS OF OPTICALLY-TRAPPED PARTICLES:DELIVERY OF THE PURE PHAGOCYTIC SIGNAL

• 来源期刊: 细胞研究(英文版)
• 学科: 生物学
• 年，卷（期）: 2006,（11）
• 页码范围: 852-854
• 页数: 3页
• 分类号: Q2
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1038/SJ.CR.7310105

摘要

Phagocytosis is a fundamental cell biological process exhibited by a wide variety of cell types from single cell organ-isms,which rely on this for feeding,to phagocytes in higher animals,which rely on specialised immune cells for com-bating infecting micro-organisms.In the immune system,both macrophages and neutrophils play roles as phagocytes.Neutrophils are often called"professional phagocytes"because of their remarkable capacity for phagocytosis,beingable to internalise microscopic particles(diam 0.5...