This amoeba, a single-celled organism, acquires energy by engulfing nutrients in the form of a yeast cell (red). Through a process called phagocytosis, the amoeba encloses the yeast cell with its ...
Granule-packaged proteases and reactive oxygen intermediates, which are important for intracellular digestion during phagocytosis, are released from neutrophils during inflammation. In the ...