These are known as opsonins or alexins, and they act on the bacteria by a process comparable to narcotisation, and render them an easy prey for the phagocytes. |
The phagocytes are numerous in the sanguineous fluid, but are still six hundred and fifty times less so than the red corpuscles. |
Certain immune cells in human milk are phagocytes that attack microbes directly. |
It is in consequence of the digestion of vaccinal products that the phagocytes manufacture the fixator. |
Phagocytosis, process by which certain living cells called phagocytes ingest or engulf other cells or particles. |
However, these two actions are the prerequisite for the identification and destruction of the formed complex by phagocytes. |