Chloroquine Treatment Increases Detection of 5-Fluorouracil-Induced Apoptosis In Vivo by Mukesh K. Nyati, Felix Y. Feng, Vinayak D. Kanade, Rabindranath Nayak

“…Apoptosis in an organism is followed almost inevitably by rapid clearance of dying cells via phagocytosis, thus limiting the ability to analyze apoptosis in vivo using classical techniques. …”
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Autophagy in Macrophages: Impacting Inflammation and Bacterial Infection by Ali Vural, John H. Kehrl

“…Innate immune responses include the rapid induction of transcriptional networks that trigger the production of cytokines, chemokines, and cytotoxic molecules; the mobilization of cells including neutrophils and other leukocytes; the engulfment of pathogens by phagocytosis and their delivery to lysosome for degradation; and the induction of autophagy. …”
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Maternal phthalates exposure promotes neural stem cell differentiation into phagocytic astrocytes and synapse engulfment via IRE1α/XBP1s pathway by Fengzhen Cui, Shiyu Deng, Yan Fu, Tongtong Xu, Shuangshuang Bao, Siyi Wang, Yahang Lin, Xianghui Wang, Faming Zhao, Tingting Zhang, Shunqing Xu, Zhijun Zhang, Wanlu Li, Guo-Yuan Yang, Huanwen Tang, Jixian Wang, Xia Sheng, Yaohui Tang

“…Conditional knockout or pharmacological inhibition of IRE1α markedly inhibits NSC differentiation into astrocytes and astrocyte reactivity, attenuates synapse phagocytosis, and improves cognitive function. This phenotype is further recapitulated in a human brain organoid model. …”
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Immunosenescence of Polymorphonuclear Neutrophils by Inga Wessels, Judith Jansen, Lothar Rink, Peter Uciechowski

“…Whereas there is consistence about the constant circulating number of PMN throughout aging, the abilities of tissue infiltration, phagocytosis, and oxidative burst of PMN from aged donors are discussed controversially. …”
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The symbiotic origin of the eukaryotic cell by López-García, Purificación, Moreira, David

“…For several decades, the most accepted scenario involved the evolution of an independent lineage of proto-eukaryotes endowed with an endomembrane system, including a nuclear compartment, a developed cytoskeleton and phagocytosis, which engulfed the alphaproteobacterial ancestor of mitochondria. …”
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Microglia and Synapse: Interactions in Health and Neurodegeneration by Zuzana Šišková, Marie-Ève Tremblay

“…Many microglial functions, such as phagocytosis, might be overwhelmed during exposure to the abnormal levels of misfolded proteins in their proximity. …”
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Secondary Hemophagocytic Syndrome: The Importance of Clinical Suspicion by Cristina Oliveira, Sérgio Chacim, Isabel Ferreira, Nelson Domingues, José Mário Mariz

“…Clinically, patients present signs of severe inflammation, with unremitting fever, cytopenias, spleen enlargement, phagocytosis of bone marrow elements, hypertriglyceridemia, and hypofibrinogenemia. …”
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Imaging of CD47 Expression in Xenograft and Allograft Tumor Models by Alexander Zheleznyak, Oluwatayo F. Ikotun, Julie Dimitry, William A. Frazier, Suzanne E. Lapi

“…CD47 functions as a marker of “self” by inhibiting phagocytosis of autologous cells. CD47 has been shown to be overexpressed by various tumor types as a means of escaping the antitumor immune response. …”
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Role of Macrophages in the Pathogenesis of Atopic Dermatitis by Sadaf Kasraie, Thomas Werfel

“…During the early and short inflammatory phase, macrophages exert proinflammatory functions like antigen-presenting phagocytosis and the production of inflammatory cytokines and growth factors that facilitate the resolution of inflammation. …”
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The intestinal microbiome as a separate organ by Yu. O. Shulpekova

“…Interaction of bacteria with the «host» reminds cooperation of usual cells and can be carried out due to receptor binding, paracrine and humoral pathways, as well as due to phagocytosis and endocytosis. Microbes produce hormone-like substances, analogues of growth factors and neurotransmitters that determine two-way interaction of microflora with the central nervous system and its active metabolic role. …”
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Selected Mechanisms of Action of Bacteriophages in Bacterial Infections in Animals by Renata Urban-Chmiel, Ewelina Pyzik

“…Due to their complex protein structure, phages can also directly or indirectly modulate immune processes, including innate immunity, by modulating phagocytosis and cytokine reactions, as well as acquired immunity, by producing antibodies and activating effector cells. …”
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Essential Role of Zinc and Zinc Transporters in Myeloid Cell Function and Host Defense against Infection by Muna Sapkota, Daren L. Knoell

“…Deficits in zinc adversely impact macrophage function resulting in dysregulation of phagocytosis, intracellular killing, and cytokine production. …”
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Malakoplakia associated with diarrhoea and colonic lesions after rituximab treatment by Yaqoub Alshatti, Meshaan Alenezi

“…Malakoplakia is a rare granulomatous condition that occurs due to defective lysosomal digestion during phagocytosis and can mimic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) or malignancies, particularly in immunosuppressed patients. …”
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Clot Formation in the Sipunculid Worm Themiste petricola: A Haemostatic and Immune Cellular Response by Tomás Lombardo, Guillermo A. Blanco

“…During formation of the clot, microbes or small particles are entrapped. Phagocytosis of self and non-self particles shed from the clot occurs at the clot neighbourhood, demonstrating that clotting is the initial phase of a well-orchestrated dual haemostatic and immune cellular response.…”
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Inadequate clearance of translocated bacterial products in HIV-infected humanized mice. by Ursula Hofer, Erika Schlaepfer, Stefan Baenziger, Marc Nischang, Stephan Regenass, Reto Schwendener, Werner Kempf, David Nadal, Roberto F Speck

“…In HIV-infected mice, however, LPS phagocytosis was insufficient to clear the translocated LPS. …”
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Cytokines and Chemokines at the Crossroads of Neuroinflammation, Neurodegeneration, and Neuropathic Pain by Geeta Ramesh, Andrew G. MacLean, Mario T. Philipp

“…Although inflammation may induce beneficial effects such as pathogen clearance and phagocytosis of apoptotic cells, uncontrolled inflammation can result in detrimental outcomes via the production of neurotoxic factors that exacerbate neurodegenerative pathology. …”
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Impact of Thrombopoietin Receptor Agonists on Pathophysiology of Pediatric Immune Thrombocytopenia by Paschalis Evangelidis, Konstantinos Tragiannidis, Eleni Gavriilaki, Athanasios Tragiannidis

“…Various pathophysiological mechanisms are implicated in ITP pathogenesis, including the production of autoantibodies against components of platelets (PLTs) by B-cells, the activation of the complement system, phagocytosis by macrophages mediated by Fcγ receptors, the dysregulation of T cells, and reduced bone marrow megakaryopoiesis. …”
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Induction of Cell Activation Processes by Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields by Myrtill Simkó

“…It is known that chronic activation of macrophages is associated with the onset of phagocytosis and leads to increased formation of reactive oxygen species, which themselves may cause DNA damage and are suggested to lead to carcinogenesis. …”
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Isoferulic acid facilitates effective clearance of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae through targeting capsule. by Tingting Wang, Huaizhi Yang, Qiushuang Sheng, Ying Ding, Jian Zhang, Feng Chen, Jianfeng Wang, Lei Song, Xuming Deng

“…In this way, IFA remarkably reduced capsule thickness and impaired hypercapsule-associated hypermucoviscosity phenotype (HMV), thereby significantly sensitizing hvKP to complement-mediated bacterial killing and accelerating host cell adhesion and phagocytosis. Consequently, IFA facilitated effective bacterial clearance and thus remarkably protected mice from lethal hvKP infection, as evidenced by limited bacterial dissemination and a significant improvement in survival rate. …”
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Neutrophils in Tissue Trauma of the Skin, Bone, and Lung: Two Sides of the Same Coin by A. Kovtun, D. A. C. Messerer, K. Scharffetter-Kochanek, M. Huber-Lang, A. Ignatius

“…However, severe trauma can affect central neutrophil functions, including circulation half-life, chemokinesis, phagocytosis, cytokine release, and respiratory burst. …”
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