This process is
called endocytosis.
Complex cells like amoebae (pictured right) and white blood cells can «swallow» large particles by engulfing them and pinching off the «bubble» containing the particle, a process
called endocytosis.
The opposite process, which is needed to take up membrane material, is
called endocytosis.
Endosomes are machinery that tumor cells, via a process
called endocytosis, can use to incorporate components into their environment and obtain energy by degrading them via autodigestion or autophagy.
Not exact matches
Wnt proteins, regulators of development in many organisms, bind to seven transmembrane — spanning (7TMS) receptors
called frizzleds, thereby recruiting the cytoplasmic molecule dishevelled (Dvl) to the plasma membrane.Frizzled - mediated
endocytosis of Wg (a Drosophila Wnt protein) and lysosomal degradation may regulate the formation of morphogen gradients.
Among all the genes that control
endocytosis, the authors of the study focused specifically on one,
called RAB7; this gene is highly expressed in melanoma cells.
The retrieval of an emptied vesicle membrane is
called «
endocytosis,» and it is this process that an overabundance of alpha - synuclein disrupts.
At the basic level, this work opened the field of receptor - mediated
endocytosis, and at the clinical level it helped lay the conceptual groundwork for development of drugs
called statins that lower blood LDL - cholesterol and prevent heart attacks.
✓ Neurotoxicity: WGA can cross your blood - brain barrier33 through a process
called «adsorptive
endocytosis,» pulling other substances with it.
✓ Neurotoxicity — WGA can cross your blood - brain barrier through a process
called «adsorptive
endocytosis,» pulling other substances with it.