micropinocytosis

id: GO:0044350
name: micropinocytosis
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: An endocytosis process that results in the uptake of liquid material by cells from their external environment by invagination of the plasma membrane to form uncoated micropinosomes, differentiated from macropinosomes by their smaller size, on average 95 nm.

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