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Phagosomes

"Phagosomes" 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.

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Membrane-bound cytoplasmic vesicles formed by invagination of phagocytized material. They fuse with lysosomes to form phagolysosomes in which the hydrolytic enzymes of the lysosome digest the phagocytized material.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Phagosomes" by people in this website by year, and whether "Phagosomes" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 26 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2015
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