A process leading to shortening and/or development of tension in muscle tissue. Muscle contraction occurs by a sliding filament mechanism whereby actin filaments slide inward among the myosin filaments.

Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of muscle contraction.

A process leading to shortening and/or development of tension in smooth muscle tissue.

The process, occurring above the cellular level, that is pertinent to the reproductive function of an organism. This includes the integrated processes at the level of tissues and organs.

The evagination of a membrane, resulting in formation of a vesicle.

A protein coat is added to the vesicle to form the proper shape of the vesicle and to target the vesicle for transport to its destination.

The process by which vesicles are directed to specific destination membranes, mediated by molecules at the vesicle membrane and target membrane surfaces.

The initial attachment of a vesicle membrane to a target membrane, mediated by proteins protruding from the membrane of the vesicle and the target membrane, during exocytosis.

Fusion of the membrane of a transport vesicle with its target membrane.

The process whereby cells take in liquid material from their external environment; literally 'cell drinking'. Liquid is enclosed in vesicles, formed by invagination of the plasma membrane. These vesicles then move into the cell and pass their contents to endosomes.

The process whereby phagocytes engulf external particulate material. The particles are initially contained within phagocytic vacuoles (phagosomes), which then fuse with primary lysosomes to effect digestion of the particles.

Catalysis of the hydrolysis of the 1,4-beta-linkages between N-acetyl-D-glucosamine and N-acetylmuramic acid in peptidoglycan heteropolymers of the prokaryotes cell walls and between N-acetyl-D-glucosamine residues in chitodextrins.

regulation of S phase of mitotic cell cycle

Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the progression through the S phase of mitotic cell cycle.