CLINICAL MEDICINE

Detailed explanation-1: -Phagocytes. Phagocytes are a type of white blood cell that use phagocytosis to engulf bacteria, foreign particles, and dying cells to protect the body. They bind to pathogens and internalise them in a phagosome, which acidifies and fuses with lysosomes in order to destroy the contents.

Detailed explanation-2: -Phagocytes are the white blood cells that protect the body by ingesting harmful foreign particles and help initiate an immune response.

Detailed explanation-3: -Phagocytosis consists in recognition and ingestion of particles larger than 0.5 m into a plasma membrane derived vesicle, known as phagosome. Phagocytes can ingest microbial pathogens, but importantly also apoptotic cells.

Detailed explanation-4: -neutrophils. are capable of phagocytosis. Neutrophils are primarily involved in the body’s first response to bacterial infection. Their primary targets are bacteria and fungi, and they are the most common type of WBC.