 Phagocytosis
"Phagocytosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The engulfing and degradation of microorganisms; other cells that are dead, dying, or pathogenic; and foreign particles by phagocytic cells (PHAGOCYTES).
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D010587
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G04.417.350 G09.188.665 G12.450.564.809 G12.688
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| 1998 | 5 | 0 | 5 | | 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2000 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2001 | 5 | 3 | 8 | | 2002 | 2 | 4 | 6 | | 2003 | 2 | 4 | 6 | | 2004 | 3 | 4 | 7 | | 2005 | 4 | 4 | 8 | | 2006 | 5 | 3 | 8 | | 2007 | 5 | 5 | 10 | | 2008 | 6 | 6 | 12 | | 2009 | 5 | 3 | 8 | | 2010 | 2 | 4 | 6 | | 2011 | 6 | 6 | 12 | | 2012 | 3 | 8 | 11 | | 2013 | 1 | 9 | 10 | | 2014 | 5 | 7 | 12 | | 2015 | 6 | 5 | 11 | | 2016 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2017 | 7 | 3 | 10 | | 2018 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2019 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2020 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2021 | 3 | 4 | 7 | | 2023 | 0 | 6 | 6 | | 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2025 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Phagocytosis" by people in Profiles.
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Bhattacharya M, Scherr TD, Lister J, Kielian T, Horswill AR. Extracellular adherence proteins reduce matrix porosity and enhance Staphylococcus aureus biofilm survival during prosthetic joint infection. Infect Immun. 2025 Apr 08; 93(4):e0008625.
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Wheeler EA, Lenhart-Pendergrass PM, Rysavy NM, Poch KR, Caceres SM, Calhoun KM, Serban KA, Nick JA, Malcolm KC. Divergent host humoral innate immune response to the smooth-to-rough adaptation of Mycobacterium abscessus in chronic infection. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2025; 15:1445660.
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Lesbats J, Brillac A, Reisz JA, Mukherjee P, Lhuissier C, Fern?ndez-Monreal M, Dupuy JW, Sequeira A, Tioli G, De La Calle Arregui C, Pinson B, Wendisch D, Rousseau B, Efeyan A, Sander LE, D'Alessandro A, Garaude J. Macrophages recycle phagocytosed bacteria to fuel immunometabolic responses. Nature. 2025 Apr; 640(8058):524-533.
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Chiaro TR, Greenewood M, Bauer KM, Ost KS, Stephen-Victor E, Murphy M, Weis AM, Nelson MC, Hill JH, Bell R, Voth W, Jackson T, Klag KA, O'Connell RM, Zac Stephens W, Round JL. Clec12a controls colitis by tempering inflammation and restricting expansion of specific commensals. Cell Host Microbe. 2025 Jan 08; 33(1):89-103.e7.
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Huynh TN, Toperzer J, Scherer A, Gumina A, Brunetti T, Mansour MK, Markovitz DM, Russo BC. Vimentin regulates mitochondrial ROS production and inflammatory responses of neutrophils. Front Immunol. 2024; 15:1416275.
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Morrison V, Houpert M, Trapani J, Brockman A, Kingsley P, Katdare K, Layden H, Nguena-Jones G, Trevisan A, Maguire-Zeiss K, Marnett L, Bix G, Ihrie R, Carter B. Jedi-1/MEGF12-mediated phagocytosis controls the pro-neurogenic properties of microglia in the ventricular-subventricular zone. Cell Rep. 2023 11 28; 42(11):113423.
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Ochoa AE, Congel JH, Corley JM, Janssen WJ, Nick JA, Malcolm KC, Hisert KB. Dectin-1-Independent Macrophage Phagocytosis of Mycobacterium abscessus. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Jul 04; 24(13).
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Yandamuri SS, Filipek B, Obaid AH, Lele N, Thurman JM, Makhani N, Nowak RJ, Guo Y, Lucchinetti CF, Flanagan EP, Longbrake EE, O'Connor KC. MOGAD patient autoantibodies induce complement, phagocytosis, and cellular cytotoxicity. JCI Insight. 2023 06 08; 8(11).
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Moghimi SM, Haroon HB, Yaghmur A, Hunter AC, Papini E, Farhangrazi ZS, Simberg D, Trohopoulos PN. Perspectives on complement and phagocytic cell responses to nanoparticles: From fundamentals to adverse reactions. J Control Release. 2023 04; 356:115-129.
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Hinman KD, Laforce-Nesbitt SS, Cohen JT, Mundy M, Bliss JM, Horswill AR, Lefort CT. Bi-fluorescent Staphylococcus aureus infection enables single-cell analysis of intracellular killing in vivo. Front Immunol. 2023; 14:1089111.
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