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Descriptor English: Endocytosis
Descriptor Spanish: Endocitosis
Descriptor endocitosis
Scope note: Captación celular de material extracelular, en vacuolas o microvesículas rodeadas de membrana. Los ENDOSOMAS tienen un papel central en la endocitosis.
Descriptor Portuguese: Endocitose
Descriptor French: Endocytose
Entry term(s): Endocytoses
Tree number(s): G04.417
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004705
Scope note: Cellular uptake of extracellular materials within membrane-limited vacuoles or microvesicles. ENDOSOMES play a central role in endocytosis.
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
ES ethics
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Previous Indexing: Cells/physiology (1966-1972)
Public MeSH Note: 76; was see under PHAGOCYTOSIS 1975
History Note: 76(73); was see under PHAGOCYTOSIS 1975
Related: Endosomes MeSH
DeCS ID: 4787
Unique ID: D004705
NLM Classification: QU 375
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Date Established: 1976/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2016/06/17
Endocytosis - Preferred
Concept UI M0007403
Scope note Cellular uptake of extracellular materials within membrane-limited vacuoles or microvesicles. ENDOSOMES play a central role in endocytosis.
Preferred term Endocytosis
Entry term(s) Endocytoses



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