leucocyte Betydning & definition

Eksempler på leucocyte

• To date however, the effect of an intestinal adult tapeworm on leucocyte migration from the pronephros has not been ascertained.

• Either of the last 2 mechanisms would enhance leucocyte adhesion and hence phagocytosis or encapsulation.

• In addition, it has been proposed that fish leucocytes are able to induce death of a target organism by apoptosis.

• The leucocytes were markedly increased on the two days preceding the day when the horse died.

• Tissue macrophages which differentiate from blood-borne monocytes, large granular lymphocytes and polymorphonuclear leucocytes are the main cell types involved in nonadaptive immunity.

• Histology reveals typical mushroom-like pseudomembranes, comprising fibrin, mucus, leucocytes and cellular debris.

• Ultrastructural examination of living plerocercoids revealed that adherent leucocytes caused little damage, only phagocytosing some microthrix spines.

• Even when the immune system is in the resting state, large numbers of leucocytes continue to be produced.