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The process whereby phagocytes engulf external particulate material. The particles are initially contained within phagocytic vacuoles (phagosomes), which then fuse with primary lysosomes to effect digestion of the particles. Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of phagocytosis, the process whereby phagocytes engulf external particulate material. Any process by which an organism modulates the frequency, rate or extent of phagocytosis, the engulfing by phagocytes of external particulate material, in a second organism, where the two organisms are in a symbiotic interaction. Any process that stops, prevents or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of phagocytosis. Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of phagocytosis. Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of endocytosis. Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of a process involved in the formation, arrangement of constituent parts, or disassembly of cell structures, including the plasma membrane and any external encapsulating structures such as the cell wall and cell envelope. Any process that modulates the rate, frequency, or extent of vesicle-mediated transport, the directed movement of substances, either within a vesicle or in the vesicle membrane, into, out of or within a cell. Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the internalization of bacteria, immune complexes and other particulate matter or of an apoptotic cell by phagocytosis. A type of vesicle-mediated transport in which cells take up external materials or membrane constituents by the invagination of small region of the plasma membrane to form a new membrane-bounded vesicle.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: regulation of phagocytosis
Acc: GO:0050764
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of phagocytosis, the process whereby phagocytes engulf external particulate material.
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
   This term: 7 [Search]
   Term or descendants: 76 [Search]


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GO:0050764 - regulation of phagocytosis (interactive image map)
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