contact inhibition of phagocytosis

contact inhibition of phagocytosis
Phenomenon described in sheets of kidney epithelial cells that, when confluent, lose their weak phagocytic activity, probably because of a failure of adhesion of particles to the dorsal surface in the absence of ruffles.

Dictionary of molecular biology. 2004.

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