Phagocyte

A phagocyte (often phagocyte, from Ancient Greek φαγεῖν phagein "eat", and ancient Greek κύτος kytos " cavity ", " vessel ", " sleeve ") is a so-called " phagocytes " that can absorb and digest animate or inanimate tissue or other parts. The term was coined by German zoologist Carl Claus, the Russian immunologist Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, the starfish phagocytes (which he initially called phagocytes ) was in winter 1882/83 discovered, had been asked for advice.

Micro phage

In this role - which is called phagocytosis - are phagocytes in microcytes granulocytes or itself following move both cellular components of the blood, and in the intercellular spaces of the fabric to move freely and can be used in the latter as amoebae, certain stimuli. Microphages are for phagocytosis of small particles, such as bacteria, capable.

Macrophages

As a free moving phagocytes they are called monocytes when they migrate into tissue, they become tissue macrophages and in their totality form the retikulohistiocytäre system. An important task is their ability to present antigen.