Phagocytosis is the ingestion by cells of particles or other cells. Receptors in membranes of phagocytic cells organize the advance of the plasma membrane and the actin cytoskeleton around target ...
In complex metazoans, macrophages and to some extent other phagocytes have two essential functions that rely on phagocytosis: a 'housekeeping' or scavenging function and a function in host defense ...