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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...
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small mineral particles are all
examples of
objects that may be
phagocytized. Some
protozoa use
phagocytosis as
means to
obtain nutrients.
Where phagocytosis...
- In immunology, the
mononuclear phagocyte system or
mononuclear phagocytic system (MPS) also
known as the
macrophage system is a part of the
immune system...
- also
known as
Hargraves cell, is a
neutrophil or
macrophage that has
phagocytized (engulfed) the
denatured nuclear material of
another cell. The denatured...
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which is
typically filled with
purulent exudate (dead neutrophils,
phagocytized bacteria, and
other cellular components).
Fluid may
drain freely from...
- cytotoxicity.
Vacuolization may be
present in a cell that has
recently phagocytized foreign matter.
Monocytes can
migrate into
tissues and
replenish resident...
- a
vesicle formed around a
particle engulfed by a
phagocyte via phagocytosis.
Professional phagocytes include macrophages, neutrophils, and
dendritic cells...
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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...
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function and die,
before they or
their neutrophil extracellular traps are
phagocytized by the macrophages. When at the site, the
first wave of neutrophils,...
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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,...
