In cellular biology, pinocytosis, otherwise known as fluid endocytosis and bulk-phase pinocytosis, is a mode of endocytosis in which small molecules dissolved...

form a vesicle containing the ingested materials. Endocytosis includes pinocytosis (cell drinking) and phagocytosis (cell eating). It is a form of active...

material in the membrane-enclosed vacuole and the cell membrane intact. Pinocytosis ("cell drinking") is essentially the same process, the difference being...

leaf-like and oval in outline and covered by thin pellicle. Nutrition is by pinocytosis. There are several small, spherical and similar sized nuclei present...

cell membrane. The two major types of endocytosis are pinocytosis and phagocytosis. Pinocytosis, also known as cell drinking, is the absorption of small...

acetylcholine receptor. The cellular membrane pinches in a procession known as pinocytosis and allows entry of the virus into the cell by way of an endosome. The...

kingdom Animalia. Protozoans obtain their required nutrients through pinocytosis and phagocytosis. Helminths of class Cestoidea and Trematoda absorb nutrients...

enzymes, then digest the particles within the food vacuole.: 139–140  In pinocytosis, a cell takes in ("gulps") extracellular fluid into vesicles, which are...

Biologists distinguish two main types of endocytosis: pinocytosis and phagocytosis. In pinocytosis, cells engulf liquid particles (in humans this process...

engulfing smaller organisms and particles of organic matter, or by pinocytosis, taking in dissolved nutrients through vesicles formed within the cell...

receptor- independent uptake processes of phagocytosis, micro- and macro-pinocytosis, or receptor-dependent processes and then transported along the mesangial...

their life cycle. For instance, the malaria parasite Plasmodium feeds by pinocytosis during its immature trophozoite stage of life (ring phase), but develops...

eating" or phagocytosis), small molecules and ions ("cell drinking" or pinocytosis), and macromolecules. Endocytosis requires energy and is thus a form...

cell Emperipolesis Endosymbionts in protists Paracytophagy Phagoptosis Pinocytosis Residual body Cell wall Tauber, A. I. (1992). "The birth of immunology...

variations Bulk endocytosis Endocytosis Non-specific, adsorptive pinocytosis Phagocytosis Pinocytosis Viropexis Sorkin A, Puthenveedu MA (2013-01-01). "Clathrin-Mediated...

phagocytosis (cell eating) and pinocytosis (cell drinking). In phagocytosis, cells engulf large particles such as bacteria. Pinocytosis is the same process, except...

relatively difficult to reach without a specific mechanism. Less commonly, pinocytosis or phagocytosis may be used for cellular uptake of the liposome. Certain...

to take in large particles by phagocytosis and smaller particles via pinocytosis. Kupffer cells are integral in the innate responses of the immune system...

Golgi apparatus and implanted into the surface of the cell by reverse pinocytosis, a type of exocytosis. The cells in the superficial layer of the transitional...

Steinman RM, Brodie SE, Cohn ZA (March 1976). "Membrane flow during pinocytosis. A stereologic analysis". J. Cell Biol. 68 (3): 665–87. doi:10.1083/jcb...

pile, pill, pillar, pillory pin- (ΠΟ) drink Greek πίνειν (pínein), πῶμα pinocytosis pin- pine Latin pinus pineal gland ping-, pict- paint Latin pingere,...

epithelial cells of the proximal tubule as part of receptor-mediated pinocytosis. The concentration of amikacin in the renal cortex becomes ten times...

membrane. Entry then occurs by the less selective process of absorptive pinocytosis. Once inside the target cell, granzyme B can cleave and activate initiator...

exo-endocytosis, until completely empty of its contents. Endocytosis Pinocytosis Phagocytosis Membrane nanotube Viral shedding Presynaptic active zone...

being degraded. Pathogens often hijack endocytotic pathways such as pinocytosis in order to gain entry into the cell. The lysosome prevents easy entry...

cell at which phagocytosis normally occurs. Some amoebae also feed by pinocytosis, imbibing dissolved nutrients through vesicles formed within the cell...

Digeneans are also capable of direct nutrient uptake through the tegument by pinocytosis and phagocytosis by the syncitium. Most adult digeneans occur in the...

(5-(N-ethyl-N-isopropyl) amiloride), an inhibitor of the Na+/H+ exchanger specific for pinocytosis. Then, internalized EBOV particles are transported to late endosomes...

happen independently of each other. BAR domain Endocytosis Phagocytosis Pinocytosis Syndapin Qualmann B, Koch D, Kessels MM (2011). "Let's go bananas: revisiting...

mouth, opalines feed by taking in nutrients from their surroundings by pinocytosis. While the opalines are often referred to as "parasites", two lines of...