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ALEVEL NOTES ON THE IMMUNITY TOPIC- PHAGOCYTOSIS ADJUSTED TO THE AQA SPECIFICATION AND MADE FROM MARKSCHEMES

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Phagocytosis
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Phagocytosis is the
process in which
large particles are
engulfed by cells in the vesicles formed from

the cell - surface membrane .




blood ,
In the the
types of white blood cells that out phagocytosis known
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as
carry are




phagocytes .




travel blood
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Some
phagocytes in the but can move out of blood vessels into other tissues .




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phagocyte is attracted to the
pathogen by
chemical products of the It



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pathogen . moves
chemical products
the of pathogen
towards
pathogen along a concentration
gradient .




phagocyte
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2 surface
. The
phagocyte has several receptors on its cell -




membrane attach to chemicals surface of the
that on the
pathogen .





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engulf pathogen form ]
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the to a vesicle ,
known as a




vesicle fuse with
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Lysosomes move towards the and it .
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nucleus
These
5. Enzymes called
Iysozymes present within are the
lysosome .




Iysozymes destroy ingested bacteria by hydrolysis of their cell walls .





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smaller ,
soluble ones .




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.
The
hydrolysis products the bacterium are into
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of the
phagocyte
cytoplasm
.




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When receptors on the
phagocyte bind to the
antigen on the
target pathogen .




Other links between
receptors then be moved to the to create further
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will area


pathogen and
phagocyte .




Phagocytosis begins
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