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What are the functions of macrophages?
macrophages are very good at the process of phagocytosis
What is the importance of macrophages?
Macrophages engulf and digest antigens and remove necrotic cellular debis in the lungs.
Which white blood cells turn into macrophages in tissue?
Macrophages are a type of white blood cell that begin their lives as monocytes. monocytes develop into macrophages or dendritic cells. For stem cells, please visit BOC Sciences
What does interleukin 1 do?
Interleukin 1 is produced by macrophages after phagocytocis (eating bad stuff). It is a cytokine, or chemical messenger that recruits more white blood cells to attack the foreign substance.
What cells remove damaged cells or pathogens from the connective tissue?
it's called macrophages
Macrophages are attracted to the infected site and are prepared to attack the invaders by what?
Lymphokines
What type of white blood cells attack specific microorganisms?
Macrophages
Neutrophils and macrophages are capable of ingesting bacteria?
Neutrophils and macrophages attack and destroy bacteria. Neutrophils are mature cells that can ingest bacteria. Macrophages enter tissues and swell ingesting bacteria that is in the tissues and blood stream.
What are the functions of lymphokine?
Lymphokines
What directs the immune response by signaling between the immune systems?
lymphokines
How can you kill viruses?
There are numerous products that kill viruses on environmental surfaces, but few that safely attack them in the body. The body's "T helper cells" can signal macrophages to attack some viruses.
What are monokines and lymphokines?
There is a general term called cytokines. These are secreted molecules with autocrine (self taget), paracrine (local target), and endocrine (far target) functions. These chemicals can be used to alter behavior of a cell (vasoactivate endothelial cells to leak out plasma), commit a cell to apoptosis (cytotoxic), or attract cells form the adaptive and innate immune system to perform a function (chemotaxis). Lymphokines are a subclass of cytokines which are released by cells of the lymphoid progenitor (b-cells, t-cells, and NK cells). Monokines are a subclass of cytokines which are sercreted by monocytes and macropohages. Macrophages are mature Monocytes which are made from a myeloid progenitor.
How do macrophages replicate?
Macrophages do not replicate. The bone marrow produces Monocytes which when they find a damaged area transform into Macrophages.
What are the functions of macrophages?
macrophages are very good at the process of phagocytosis
Chemicals released by sensitized t lymphocytes to keep us healthy are known as?
lymphokines
What directs the antigen-antibody response by signaling between the cells of the immune system?
Lymphokines
Are macrophages responsible for allergic reactions?
No, macrophages are responsible for removing dying or dead cells in the early stages of inflammation. Macrophages essentially ingest these.
