Transcription: Your body has an amazing array of cellular defenses that help keep you healthy. Consider for example this macrophage. It is attacking a yeast cell. This particular species of yeast, Candida albicans, is pathogenic and therefore it has to be eliminated. The macrophage does this by flowing around the yeast, eventually engulfing the yeast in its own cellular material. As time goes on, the macrophage will start digesting the yeast until the yeast is simply gone. Because of the way they destroy pathogens, macrophages must be large. They are in fact the largest of the infection fighting cells in you ...
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