The white blood cell then engulfs the pathogen in a process called phagocytosis ... which white blood cells use brute force ...

Thus, Fcα/μR is involved in the primary stages of the immune response to microbes. Figure 3: Binding of immunoglobulins to mFcα/μR. We next examined whether Fcα/μR was involved in endocytosis.

a commensal microbe present in some mice, reprograms AM gene expression, increasing complement expression and phagocytosis, thereby enabling AM to engulf and destroy viral pathogens without ...