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Phagocytes are
cells that
protect the body by
ingesting harmful foreign particles, bacteria, and dead or
dying cells.
Their name
comes from the Gr**** phagein...
- In immunology, the
mononuclear phagocyte system or
mononuclear phagocytic system (MPS) also
known as the
macrophage system is a part of the
immune system...
- one type of endocytosis. A cell that
performs phagocytosis is
called a
phagocyte. In a
multicellular organism's
immune system,
phagocytosis is a major...
- a
vesicle formed around a
particle engulfed by a
phagocyte via phagocytosis.
Professional phagocytes include macrophages, neutrophils, and
dendritic cells...
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system (abbreviated RES),
often ****ociated
nowadays with the
mononuclear phagocyte system (MPS), was emplo**** by the
beginning of the 20th
century to denote...
- cytotoxicity.
Vacuolization may be
present in a cell that has
recently phagocytized foreign matter.
Monocytes can
migrate into
tissues and
replenish resident...
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immune effector cells,
ultimately accelerating microbial clearance through phagocytic destruction or antibody-dependent
cellular cytotoxicity. Antibody-mediated...
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extracellular proteins that, when
bound to
substances or cells,
induce phagocytes to
phagocytose the
substances or
cells with the
opsonins bound. Thus,...
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oxygen compounds (most
importantly the
superoxide radical due to
defective phagocyte NADPH oxidase) used to kill
certain ingested pathogens. This
leads to...
- receptors,
cause local vasodilation of the
blood vessels, and
attract phagocytes,
especially neutrophils.
Neutrophils then
trigger other parts of the immune...
