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Contents 1 Endocytosis vs phagocytosis 2 UK standards? 3 Endo/Excocytosis 4 Phagocytosis 5 Fourth method of endocytosis: receptor-mediated endocytosis? 6 Dewikification reverted 7 images would be great for this article

[edit] Endocytosis vs phagocytosis

As far as I know, endocytosis and phagocytosis are two separated ways of intake of matter, not the one being the form of another. Phagocytosis is active, mediated by pseudopodia, while endocytosis is not. --Eleassar777 23:35, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC) No phagocytosis is a form of endocytosis and other forms of endocytosis are activeHarvey McMahon 09:22, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] UK standards?

Hm...I'm confused again. Acording to a As-level textbook, "Biology 1" endorsed by OCR, phagocytosis is only restricted to phagocyte engulfing a pathogen. Other cells "eating" other materials are referred as endocytosis. Why is that? Cherubfish 17:12, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Endo/Excocytosis

Also i'm not sure (being a relatively new student) but isn't it also true that exo and endocytosis happen by fairly unconnected mechanisms? So it isn't really true to call them opposites. -Unknown

[edit] Phagocytosis

Phagocytosis is not only restricted to pathogens like bacteria and viruses. The uptake of Dying (apoptotic) cells by macrophages is also called phagocytosis. See for example the review on Entrez PubMed the biomedical joural database PMID: 16369558

The molecular mechanisms that control endo and exocytosis can indeed be different. However here is meant the function of endocytosis is the oposite of exocytosis. -Unknown

[edit] Fourth method of endocytosis: receptor-mediated endocytosis?

I'm not sure where this fits in on the article, perhaps a fourth method? Either way, it should be mentioned. Perhaps a merge, I'm not sure, best to discuss with whoever created it. Thoughts? Tyciol 09:09, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dewikification reverted

This article was deprived of its wiki formating on November 30, apparently by replacing the wiki markup with the rendered article text. No new material seems to have been added, and therefore I have reverted this. /The Phoenix 12:50, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] images would be great for this article

just a note at this point --John Cumbers 18:24, 23 April 2007 (UTC)