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IF .. they're trapped in the mucous of the upper airways, then you either sneeze (or cough) them out or you swallow them (and digest them in your stomach).
Otherwise you must depend on antibodies and white cells to do their job.
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How does phagocytes help to fight infections?
its role in defending your body against disease is to find and "eat" (consume i guess) bacteria, viruses, and dead or injured body cells Phagocytes defend the body by destroy pathogens. They surrounding and engulfing them.
Why does the immune system need to destroy pathogen?
The immune system needs to destroy the pathogens. Other wise the pathogens will multiply in the body of host. The pathogens will multiply by geometrical proportion. With in very short time the pathogens will occupy the whole body. You can no longer survive in that case.
What body's ability can destroy pathogens before they can cause disease?
Immunity
Process by which phagocytes destroy pathogens is called?
PhagocytosisPhagocytes make up three-quarters of the body's white blood cells. They destroy pathogens by engulfing them.It's called phagocytosis. Macrophages mainly phagocytose the pathogens.
What body system functions only to search and destroy pathogens?
White Blood Cells
What are tge pahogens that destroy T-cells in the body is?
One of the primary pathogens that destroy T-cells in the body is the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It can leads lead to AIDS.
Which is your body and rsquos ability to destroy pathogens that it has previously encountered before these pathogens can cause disease?
Immunity.
What use of body in proteins?
Proteins can catalyze reactions, transport substances, destroy pathogens, and transmit signals.
What body system destroy pathogen that enter the body?
the immunes system i found out of my teacher
Do red blood cells destroy viruses in your body?
No. Only white blood cells destroys pathogens, such as viruses.
What is the process by which phagocytes destroy a pathogens?
what is the process by which phagocytes destroy a pathoger
What is happening to a body when a body has fever?
Your body's temperature set point has been raised so that your body will heat up in order to help your immune system destroy the pathogens that are inside you.
