ONE hypothesis to account for the way in which fat is taken up by the cells of the intestinal mucosa of mammals is that the cells engulf droplets of fat by the process of pinocytosis 1–4. The ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Infection of baby hamster kidney cells with vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) caused a reduced rate of pinocytosis (as judged by the uptake of ...

Inducers of pinocytosis in amoeba cause as much as a 50-fold decrease in the electrical resistance of the plasma membrane prior to the formation of the typical tunnels and vacuoles. In this state the ...