Macrophages

Question 1

How do Macrophages size and life length compare to neutrophils

Answer 1

Macrophages are larger than neutrophils and are long-lived cells

Question 2

Rather than remaining in the blood where do Macrophages move to

Answer 2

they move into organs including the lungs, liver, spleen, kidney and lymph nodes

Question 3

After being produced in the bone marrow, macrophages travel in the blood as ……………….., which then develop into macrophages once they ………………………

Answer 3

monocytes

leave the blood to settle in the various organs

Question 4

Mode of action:
Macrophages play a very important role in

Answer 4

initiating the immune system

Question 5

Although Macrophages still carry out phagocytosis in a similar way to neutrophils, they do not destroy ……………

Answer 5

pathogens completely

Question 6

Macrophages ………….. the pathogens up so that they can display the …………………………………….. (through a structure called the major …………..

Answer 6

cut

antigens of the pathogens on their surface

histocompatibility complex

Question 7

These displayed antigens (the cell is now called an ………………..-presenting cell) can then be recognised by ……………………(another type of white blood cell)

Answer 7

antigen

lymphocytes