PATHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Macrophages. Macrophages clean up cellular debris and are also part of the immune system response as they engulf bacterial cells if present.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cell debris is organic waste left over after a cell dies, which is an inevitable consequence of a cell life-cycle. Healthy cells can deteriorate into cell debris due to damage by adverse physical, chemical, infectious, biological, nutritional or immunological factors [3].

Detailed explanation-3: -One method of removing cell debris and dead cells from a single cell suspension is to use a dead cell removal kit to “clean-up” the sample population before running samples on a flow cytometer. These kits are available from vendors such as Miltenyi Biotec Inc. (Auburn, CA) and STEMCELL Technologies Inc.