phagocyte

But just how does a phagocyte know not to eat a healthy cell?

One liter of human blood has about six billion phagocytes.

Like phagocytes, they actually eat the bacteria and dead cells.

Many bacteria now have ways to not be eaten or killed by phagocytes.

Phagocytes could take care of an invasion of them into a human body.

It's eaten, consumed by another type of cell called a phagocyte.

During his research on cell biology he coined the word phagocyte.

"Now I shall prove that these microbes inside the phagocytes are still alive!"

When there is an infection, phagocytes move to the bacteria by sensing chemicals.

These chemicals may come from bacteria or from other phagocytes already present.

This debris serves as a signal to recruit more phagocytes from the blood.

Phagocytes form part of the innate immune system, which animals, including humans, are born with.

All phagocytes, and especially macrophages, exist in degrees of readiness.

There are several ways bacteria avoid contact with phagocytes.

But a common ancestry with mammalian phagocytes has not been proven.

Its chief lieutenants are white blood cells - phagocytes and lymphocytes.

"I multiply experiments to support my theory of phagocytes!"

Hirsch was also notable for his studies of phagocyte.

This binding will lead to the engulfing of the bacteria by the phagocyte.

A phagocyte has many types of receptors on its surface that are used to bind material.

Normally these cells, known as phagocytes, engulf and destroy bacteria.

The phagocyte then stretches itself around the bacterium and engulfs it.

The spleen is the largest unit of the mononuclear phagocyte system.

But usually in such small quantity that the phagocytes can handle 'em.

However, many pathogens have evolved methods to evade attacks by phagocytes.