In one process, objects are coated with fragments like C3B or IgG, which can then be recognized by these cells' CR1 receptors.
In one process, objects are coated with fragments like C3B or IgG, which can then be recognized by these cells' CR1 receptors. That process is opsonization. The Cords of Billroth contain large numbers of the precursors of these cells, a precursor which they share with dendritic cells. Tuberculosis-causing mycobacteria replicate in endosomes of these cells and may remain dormant for years due to the formation of (*) granulomas, which are mostly composed of these cells. In the liver they differentiate to Kupffer cells and break red blood cells and their colony stimulating factor causes their differentiation into osteoclasts which absorb and digest bone tissue. Monocytes differentiate into, for 10 points, what large cells which eat and digest debris and infectious agents.
In one process, objects are coated with fragments like C3B or IgG, which can then be recognized by these cells' CR1 receptors.
macrophages