A vesicle-mediated transport process in which cells take up external materials or membrane constituents by the invagination of a small region of the plasma membrane to form a new membrane-bounded vesicle.

Synonyms: vesicle endocytosis endocytic import into cell

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Term information

Subsets

goslim_yeast

database cross reference

Wikipedia:Endocytosis

has narrow synonym

plasma membrane invagination

has related synonym

nonselective vesicle endocytosis

has alternative id

GO:0016193

GO:0098701

GO:0016196

has obo namespace

biological_process

id

GO:0006897

imported from

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go.owl

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