Talk:Phagocytosis

In immune system

This section could do with some work. There is an attempt to describe some of the molecular and signalling details, but it is not accurate. It reads as if nuclear transcription (activation of NFkappa by pattern recognition receptors) is required before phagocytosis, but it is not. Indeed, neutrophils can be manipulated such that they loose their nucleus entirely, and these cells can still phagocytose. JustAnotherKinase (talk) 16:05, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Etymology of phagocytosis

A minor point I am sur--~~~~Insert non-formatted text heree, but wondering if any Greek linguists could clarify if phagocytosis actually means cell eating or whether it is derived from phagocyte which would suggest the action of an eating-cell, the difference being whether cell is the object of subject of the verb to eat. Actually now I think of it, it must be the latter, as phagocytosis doesn't refer to only cells being consumed. Can anyone think of a better way to phrase the ambiguous cell eating in the article? -- postglock 09:37, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Cellular eating is probably a better term. Richard001 01:20, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not a Greek linguist but the roots do make a distinction between "the eating of cells" and "the cellular process of eating", the latter of which scentific use of the word phagocytosis refers to -- Serephine ♠ talk - 04:20, 4 May 2007 (UTC)Aaron Horton[reply]

Who cares??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.17.16.89 (talk) 23:09, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A note about the videos

There appears to be a bug (reported) in the Wikimedia Player that returns an error when "Watch in browser" is attempted from the link in the article. However, the Watch-in-browser (Play-in-browser) feature does appear to work from the link provided on the image description page (i.e. the "(file info)" link).--DO11.10 18:36, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Request for expansion

This article would not be complete without a mention of the role of phagocytosis in eukaryote evolution. Verisimilus T 14:02, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]