Through a process called phagocytosis, the amoeba encloses the yeast cell with its membrane and draws it inside. Specialized plasma membrane proteins in the amoeba (in green) are involved in this ...

Macrophages salvage nutrients from the bacteria they phagocytose to regulate inflammatory responses, revealing ...

In both phagocytosis and macropinocytosis ... Caveolae are small invaginations of the cell's plasma membrane. Under the electron microscope, caveolae look to be flask-shape pits about 50-80 ...

This cell encircles the pathogen with its membrane, forming a tight ... blood cell then engulfs the pathogen in a process called phagocytosis, in which it "eats" the foreign invader to neutralize ...