 Phagocytosis
"Phagocytosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The engulfing and degradation of microorganisms; other cells that are dead, dying, or pathogenic; and foreign particles by phagocytic cells (PHAGOCYTES).
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D010587
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G04.299.482.350 G09.188.124.780 G12.425.899 G12.450.564.809
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Phagocytosis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Phagocytosis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1989 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1990 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1998 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 1999 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2000 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2001 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2002 | 7 | 3 | 10 | | 2003 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2004 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2005 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2006 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2007 | 7 | 5 | 12 | | 2008 | 3 | 4 | 7 | | 2009 | 6 | 1 | 7 | | 2010 | 4 | 4 | 8 | | 2011 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2012 | 5 | 2 | 7 | | 2013 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2014 | 8 | 3 | 11 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 6 | 2 | 8 | | 2017 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2018 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Phagocytosis" by people in Profiles.
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Freeman SA, Grinstein S. Resolution of macropinosomes, phagosomes and autolysosomes: Osmotically driven shrinkage enables tubulation and vesiculation. Traffic. 2018 12; 19(12):965-974.
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Mylvaganam SM, Grinstein S, Freeman SA. Picket-fences in the plasma membrane: functions in immune cells and phagocytosis. Semin Immunopathol. 2018 11; 40(6):605-615.
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O'Meara TR, Duah K, Guo CX, Maxson ME, Gaudet RG, Koselny K, Wellington M, Powers ME, MacAlpine J, O'Meara MJ, Veri AO, Grinstein S, Noble SM, Krysan D, Gray-Owen SD, Cowen LE. High-Throughput Screening Identifies Genes Required for Candida albicans Induction of Macrophage Pyroptosis. MBio. 2018 08 21; 9(4).
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Kipkeu BJ, Shyian ML, da Silveira Cavalcante L, Duong TT, Yeung RSM, Binnington B, Branch DR, Acker JP, Holovati JL. Evaluation of the functional properties of cryopreserved buffy coat-derived monocytes for monocyte monolayer assay. Transfusion. 2018 08; 58(8):2027-2035.
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Rabani R, Volchuk A, Jerkic M, Ormesher L, Garces-Ramirez L, Canton J, Masterson C, Gagnon S, Tatham KC, Marshall J, Grinstein S, Laffey JG, Szaszi K, Curley GF. Mesenchymal stem cells enhance NOX2-dependent reactive oxygen species production and bacterial killing in macrophages during sepsis. Eur Respir J. 2018 04; 51(4).
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Maxson ME, Naj X, O'Meara TR, Plumb JD, Cowen LE, Grinstein S. Integrin-based diffusion barrier separates membrane domains enabling the formation of microbiostatic frustrated phagosomes. Elife. 2018 03 19; 7.
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Niedergang F, Grinstein S. How to build a phagosome: new concepts for an old process. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2018 02; 50:57-63.
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Montaño F, Grinstein S, Levin R. Quantitative Phagocytosis Assays in Primary and Cultured Macrophages. Methods Mol Biol. 2018; 1784:151-163.
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Schlam D, Grinstein S, Freeman SA. Screening for Rho GTPase Modulators in Actin-Dependent Processes Exemplified by Phagocytosis. Methods Mol Biol. 2018; 1821:107-127.
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Salter MW, Stevens B. Microglia emerge as central players in brain disease. Nat Med. 2017 Sep 08; 23(9):1018-1027.
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