phagocytes

I have found that the cause of this atrophy is the consumption of the muscle fibres by what I call phagocytes, or eating cells, a certain kind of white blood cells.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

May the cells that are dying be quickly recycled as I call my phagocytes to their most efficient work.

Cell-Level Healing Joyce Whiteley Hawkes 2006

Our plea is one of identity, for the complements contained in phagocytes and for those in blood serum.

Ilya Mechnikov - Nobel Lecture 1967

A family of cells called phagocytes, meaning “eating cells,” clean up dead cell debris.

Cell-Level Healing Joyce Whiteley Hawkes 2006

According to Metchnikoff, the wandering amoeboid cells of the body, called phagocytes, may creep up into the hairs and come back again with microscopic burdens of pigment.

The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897

These latter agents, actual particles of the living animal in which they exist, are the "eater-cells," or "phagocytes" -- minute, viscid, actively moving cells, resembling the animalcules called

More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

Hv1 had previously been known to be primarily present in immune cells called phagocytes, but had not been seen in other cells, including spermatozoa, according to Yuriy Kirichok, PhD, an assistant professor in the UCSF Department of Physiology who led the research.

EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010

Hv1 had previously been known to be primarily present in immune cells called phagocytes, but had not been seen in other cells, including spermatozoa, according to Yuriy Kirichok, PhD, an assistant professor in the UCSF Department of Physiology who led the research.

RedOrbit News - Technology 2010

Immune system cells called phagocytes use phagocytosis for the "outside job" of environmental cleanup, engulfing germs by trapping them within a depression that forms in the cell's surface.

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Immune system cells called phagocytes use phagocytosis for the "outside job" of environmental cleanup, engulfing germs by trapping them within a depression that forms in the cell's surface.

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