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Some cells are specially designed to phagocytize.

These work to phagocytize old or damaged tissue, and protect the healing tissue from pathogenic infection.

They immediately start their business there as the first immune response and phagocytize the invader because of the foreign and activating surfaces.

Epithelial cells have the ability to phagocytize debris such as dead tissue and bacterial matter that would otherwise obstruct their path.

In tissues, they phagocytize red blood cells and white blood cells and destroy tissue.

Alveolar macrophages phagocytize and destroy conidia within their phagosomes.

In lymph, white blood cells engulf or phagocytize fat-encapsulated XO.

Mesangial cells also phagocytize glomerular basal lamina components and immunoglobulins.

The neutrophils phagocytize H. influenzae, thereby activating an oxidative respiratory burst.

Pluripotent cells have the ability to phagocytize bacterial cells and lyse red blood cells.

Immature dendritic cells may also phagocytize small quantities of membrane from live own cells, in a process called nibbling.

A single blind-ending caecum branches off from the underside of the gut, with a lining able to phagocytize the food particles; a feature never found in vertebrates.

The macrophage's main role is to phagocytize bacteria and damaged tissue, and they also debride damaged tissue by releasing proteases.

Other cells in the culture that are not at the appropriate stage to support viral replication continue to phagocytize and accumulate viral antigen in their cytoplasm (Fig. 2C).

Blake has extraordinary powers: he can fly, heal sick people, phagocytize other people whenever he likes; but he cannot leave the suburbs, though he repeatedly tries to go away.

Another interesting point is that pretreatment of leukocytes with doses of alpha-hemolysin at which nearly 80% of the cells survived decreased the ability of the cells to phagocytize bacteria and particles and to undergo chemotaxis.