Zusammenfassung der Ressource
White Blood Cell (WBC)
- Leucocytes
- made in the
bone marrow
- have a nucleus
- generally larger
than RBCs
- either spherical or
irregular in shape
- main function
- fight against diseases
- two main groups
- Phagocytes
- protect the body by
ingesting (phagocytosis)
harmful foreign
particles, bacteria, and
dead or dying cells.
- neutrophils
- short-lived
- 60% of total WBC
- macrophages
- long-lived
- Develop from monocytes
- Lymphocytes
- smaller than
phagocytes
- Of two types
- B cells
- plasma cells
- antibodies
Anmerkungen:
- memory cells
- T cells
- killer T cells
- helper T cells
- large
nucleus,
- fills up most of the cell