Phagocytes: Flashcards

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Manufactured in bone marrow.

Neutrophils:

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Travel in the blood and squeeze out into the tissue fluid. They are short-lived and released in large numbers quickly as a result of an infection. Neutrophils die after digesting a few pathogens, collecting to form pus. Specialisations:

  • Receptors on plasma membrane that can bind to opsonin or specific antigen.
  • Multi-lobed nucleus that allows cell to squeeze through narrow gaps.
  • Well-developed cytoskeleton that helps the cell change shape to engulf pathogens and move
    lysosomes around in the cell.
  • Many lysosomes containing hydrolytic enzymes.
  • Many mitochondria, to release energy from glucose for movement of cytoskeleton.
  • Many ribosomes, to synthesise new enzymes involved.
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Macrophages:

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Larger than Neutrophils and live longer, Kidney-bean shaped nucleus. Travel in the blood as monocytes, most in lymph nodes, where they mature into macrophages. Do not fully digest pathogens, form APCs.

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