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Miscellanea / / November 13, 2021
By Cecilia Bembibre, in Dec. 2010
The term phagocytose is a term that is used mainly in the biology to point to that phenomenon by which a cell it phagocytes or assimilates another type of cell or element to consume it or to destroy it. Phagocytosis is a completely normal process in biology, but the term can also sometimes be used as metaphor of phenomena in which two unequal parts are confronted, one being attacked by the other that consumes it until it is destroyed. In this sense, it is sometimes said that one person engulfs the other when it consumes them so much that it depletes or completely transforms them.
Phagocytosis or act of phagocytosis is one that develops between cells or elements of different type and that basically supposes that the cell surrounds with its cytoplasmic membrane (that which is in Contact with the outside) to the other element, usually smaller and weaker, to consume it, destroy it or transform it. This alteration or destruction of the weaker cell or of the element that is normally an antibody that must be destroyed by the
organisms, is produced inside the cell so that it is the internal elements of it that proceed to phagocytosis. In the event that the phagocytosed element is not destroyed but is simply transformed, the cell then returns it to the outside with its new physiological structure.Phagocytosis is, as stated, a common process in biology and has to watch more than anything with the homework of some cells that lead to cape this process in order to nullify or eliminate those elements that are harmful or dangerous to the Health. This action is what characterizes the immune system, but often the bodies dangerous are too complex or large and cannot be properly engulfed by the cells of the Body.
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