LYSOSOME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lysosome mean? 

• LYSOSOME (noun)
  The noun LYSOSOME has 1 sense:

1. an organelle found in the cytoplasm of most cells (especially in leukocytes and liver and kidney cells)

  Familiarity information: LYSOSOME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LYSOSOME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An organelle found in the cytoplasm of most cells (especially in leukocytes and liver and kidney cells)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("lysosome" is a kind of...):

cell organ; cell organelle; organelle (a specialized part of a cell; analogous to an organ)

 Context examples 

From the early endosome, receptors can either be recycled back to the cell surface, or they can move through the late endosome to the lysosome for proteolytic degradation.

(EGF Receptor Downregulation by CBL Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The area within the membrane of a lysosome.

(Lumen of the Lysosome, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes cathepsin H protein, plays a role in protein degradation within lysosomes.

(CTSH wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in both degradation of proteins in the lysosome and antigen processing.

(Cathepsin H, NCI Thesaurus)

A multivesicular body that can fuse with the lysosome to target extracellular factors for degradation.

(Late Endosome, NCI Thesaurus)

Nascent phagosomes undergo a process of maturation that involves fusion with lysosomes.

(Fc Gamma Receptor-Mediated Phagocytosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

It is composed of nests of large cells with granular, eosinophilic cytoplasm due to abundant intracytoplasmic lysosomes.

(Granular Cell Tumor of the Neurohypophysis, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

This agent was also shown to bind to and stablize trypanosomal lysosomes.

(Hydroxystilbamidine, NCI Thesaurus)

Although the mechanism is unknown, gallium Ga 67 concentrates in lysosomes and is bound to a soluble intracellular protein in certain viable primary and metastatic tumors and focal sites of inflammation, allowing scintigraphic localization.

(Gallium Citrate Ga-67, NCI Thesaurus)

An unusual benign or malignant neoplasm characterized by the presence of neoplastic large polygonal cells with granular, eosinophilic cytoplasm which contains abundant lysosomes.

(Granular Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)