prophagocytic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pro- + phagocytic.
Adjective
[edit]prophagocytic (comparative more prophagocytic, superlative most prophagocytic)
- Promoting phagocytic activity.
- 2015 September 22, “Pre-Clinical Development of a Humanized Anti-CD47 Antibody with Anti-Cancer Therapeutic Potential”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- As previously reported, RBCs gradually lose CD47 expression as they age, lose sialic acids from glycoproteins and glycolipids, and reorganize membrane phospholipids in a manner that presumably accumulates prophagocytic signals, leading to their elimination by phagocytosis.