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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: Granulocytes, Lymphocytes, Phagocytes, Macrophage, Lymphopoiesis, Alveolar macrophage, Hematopoietic stem cell, B cell, Neutrophil granulocyte, White blood cell, Eosinophil granulocyte, Cathelicidin, Megakaryocyte, Natural killer cell, V(D)J recombination, Mast cell, Plasma cell, Lymphocyte T-Cell Immune Modulator, B-1 cell, Basophil granulocyte, Recombination activating gene, Basophil activation, Junctional diversity, Reactive lymphocyte, Respiratory burst, Memory B cell, Myelocyte, Intraepithelial lymphocyte, Follicular B cell, Agranulocyte, Hypersegmented neutrophil, Clone, Peripheral blood mononuclear cell, B-cell receptor, Marginal zone B-cell, Basophilia, Monoblast, Promyelocyte, Mononucleosis, Naive B cell, Megakaryoblast, Splenocyte, Mononuclear leukocytes, Pre-B cell, Tumor infiltrating lymphocyte, Immunoblast, Centrocyte, Prolymphocyte, Polynuclear, Peripheral blood lymphocyte, L1210 cells, Lutzner cells. Excerpt: Phagocytes are the white blood cells that protect the body by ingesting (phagocytosing) harmful foreign particles, bacteria, and dead or dying cells. Their name comes from the Greek phagein, "to eat" or "devour," and "-cyte," the suffix in biology denoting "cell," from the Greek kutos, "hollow vessel." They are essential for fighting infections and for subsequent immunity. Phagocytes are important throughout the animal kingdom and are highly developed within vertebrates. One litre of human blood contains about six billion phagocytes. Phagocytes were first discovered in 1882 by Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov while he was studying starfish larvae. Mechnikov was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery. Phagocytes occur in many species; some amoebae behave like macrophage phagocytes, which suggests that phagocytes appeared early in the evolution of life. Phagocytes of humans a...
