Colour enhanced transmission electron micrograph of human macrophage. Macrophages are a type of white blood cell that engulfs and digests cellular debris, foreign substances, microbes, cancer cells, and anything else that does not have the types of proteins specific of healthy body cells on its surface in a process called phagocytosis. These large phagocytes are found in essentially all tissues, where they patrol for potential pathogens by amoeboid movement. They take various forms (with various names) throughout the body, but all are part of the mononuclear phagocyte system. Magnification unknown. | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Phillips, David M. |
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