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Q: How phagocytes protect us from pathogens?
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What is the process by which phagocytes destroy a pathogens?

what is the process by which phagocytes destroy a pathoger


What is it called when phagocytes destroy pathogens?

I'm not sure if you're looking for a more specific answer, but phagocytes engluf pathogens and wastes via phagocytosis.


What engulfs pathogens?

Phagocytes kill pathogens by engulfing them. hope that's helped!


Which white blood cell destroy pathogens by phagocytes?

macrophage


Which cells are able to protect the body by engulfing foreign cells or producing antibodies?

White-Blood Cells. Either Pathogens, or Lymphocytes.


State one specific way white blood cells help to protect the human body from pathogens?

They don't defend pathogens. They defend *against*pathogens. They poison them, they burn them with ozone / hydrogen peroxide / sodium hypochlorite / chorine dioxide, and then they eat them whole if necessary.


What do phagocytes do for a site of injury?

Engulf pathogens, backteria, foreign bodies


What healing is taking place when a wound becomes inflamed?

Phagocytes are destroying pathogens


White blood cells able to eat cell debris and pathogens?

Phagocytes


How do phagocytes protect against pathogens?

Activated by lymphocytes, Polymorph phagocytes absorb or envelope mostly bacteria, compartmentalize it, barrage it with enzymes attempting to destroy it, or radically alter it. Macrophages injest and destroy a wider variety of invaders, including viruses, and act as anitgen presenting cells which serve to increase immune response. Some epithelial and reticular cells also act as phagocytes in that the can injest and destroy or remove invaders.


What is the protein bridge between pathogens and phagocytes?

the bridge between the two is amino acids


What healing action takes place when a wound becomes inflamed?

Phagocytes are destroying pathogens