This process fails to occur for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which clinically results in a granuloma. Microglia perform this process in the brain, but its erroneous application may be responsible for neurodegenerative diseases. In most multicellular organisms, the ability to perform it is limited to a small number of cell types, and the vesicle formed in it is merged with lysosomes. In protists, however, it represents a more general process of material uptake and may be an organism's main source of nutrition. It begins with chemotaxis to the target, followed by formation of the pseudopodia to engulf the target. With vesicles larger than those in pinocytosis sometimes referred to as "food vacuoles," FTP, name this process most literally described as "cell-eating."
This process fails to occur for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which clinically results in a granuloma. Microglia perform this process in the brain, but its erroneous application may be responsible for neurodegenerative diseases. In most multicellular organisms, the ability to perform it is limited to a small number of cell types, and the vesicle formed in it is merged with lysosomes. In protists, however, it represents a more general process of material uptake and may be an organism's main source of nutrition. It begins with chemotaxis to the target, followed by formation of the pseudopodia to engulf the target. With vesicles larger than those in pinocytosis sometimes referred to as "food vacuoles," FTP, name this process most literally described as "cell-eating."
This process fails to occur for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which clinically results in a granuloma.
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