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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...
- one type of endocytosis. A cell that
performs phagocytosis is
called a
phagocyte. In a
multicellular organism's
immune system,
phagocytosis is a major...
- In immunology, the
mononuclear phagocyte system or
mononuclear phagocytic system (MPS) also
known as the
macrophage system is a part of the
immune system...
- a
vesicle formed around a
particle engulfed by a
phagocyte via phagocytosis.
Professional phagocytes include macrophages, neutrophils, and
dendritic cells...
- 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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ready to be deplo**** to
injured tissue. The macrophage's main role is to
phagocytize bacteria and
damaged tissue, and they also
debride damaged tissue by...
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Phagocyte bactericidal dysfunction refers to a
class of
medical conditions where phagocytes have a
diminished ability to
fight bacterial infection. Examples...
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Neutrophils are a type of
phagocytic white blood cell and part of
innate immunity. More specifically, they form the most
abundant type of granulocytes...
- the
mononuclear phagocyte system (also
known as the
reticuloendothelial system or lymp****ticular system). The
mononuclear phagocytic system is part of...
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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,...
