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Genetic analysis of endocytosis in Caenorhabditis elegans: coelomocyte uptake defective mutants.
Genetics - 1 Sept 2001
Fares H, Greenwald I
Abstract excerpt
The coelomocytes of Caenorhabditis elegans are scavenger cells that continuously and nonspecifically endocytose fluid from the pseudocoelom (body cavity). Green fluorescent protein (GFP) secreted into the pseudocoelom from body wall muscle cells is endocytosed and degraded by coelomocytes. We show that toxin-mediated ablation of coelomocytes results in viable animals that fail to endocytose pseudocoelomic GFP,...
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