Crawling Neutrophil Chasing a Bacterium

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Neutrophils defend against bacterial or fungal infection and other very small inflammatory processes that are usually first responders to microbial infection; their activity and death in large numbers forms pus. They have a multilobed nucleus which may appear like multiple nuclei. Neutrophils are not able to renew their lysosomes used in digesting microbes and die after having phagocytosed a few pathogens.

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  1. Comment  by g. de haan

    crazy astounding video, wish I could download it to show it to my pupils at school

  2. Comment  by xiken

    OM NOM NOM

  3. Comment  by drake

    Wonderfull video
    candid moment!

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Added: January 6th, 2009 at 9:36 pm

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