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Macrophages are scavenger cells that can ingest dead tissue and foreign cells. Macrophages form tentacles called pseudopods to surround an invader. Once inside the macrophage, the invader is walled off and then digested and destroyed by a bag of digestive chemicals, or enzymes.

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Macrophages are scavenger cells that can ingest dead tissue and foreign cells. Macrophages form tentacles called pseudopods to surround an invader. Once inside the macrophage, the invader is walled off and then digested and destroyed by a bag of digestive chemicals, or enzymes.

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Review Date: 11/16/2010

Paula J. Busse, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.

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No, phagocytosis is a form of endocytosis.

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active transport

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Monocytes and macrophages are good example of blood cells which cause phagocytosis. They originate from lymphoid stem cells

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Leukocytes (white blood cells). They destroy invaders though phagocytosis and the fusing of lysosomes with hydrolytic enzymes.

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