Phagocyte
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Phagocytes are cells that protect the body by ingesting harmful foreign particles, bacteria, and dead or dying cells. They include monocytes, macrophages, neutrophils, tissue dendritic cells, and mast
Scanning electron micrograph of a neutrophil phagocytosing anthrax bacilli (orange)
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov in his laboratory
Micrograph of Gram-stained pus showing Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria inside phagocytes and their relative sizes
Monocytes in blood (Giemsa stain)
Respiratory burst
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Respiratory burst is the rapid release of the reactive oxygen species, superoxide anion and hydrogen peroxide, from different cell types.
Generation of reactive oxygen and reactive nitrogen species in the phagolysosome, implicated in respiratory burst.
