Dendritic

Yes http://www.ask4biology.com/immunology/phagocytosis

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Well, hmmmh. Not sure what your textbook is, but the ones I checked quite explicitly labelled dendritic cells as "professional phagocytes" - meaning that phagocytosis is one of their primary duties. You could, for example, check Janeway's Immunobiology, which ...

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Yes, dendritic cells are phagocytes.

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I can't seem to find the answer to this. My book doesn't explicitly say that dendritic cells are phagocytes, but I find some sites and articles on the web that say they are. Eg. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17850487 Any help is appreciated

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... GM-CSF and incubate for 24 hours. Then add 25 ug/ml of poly-I:C and incubate another 24 hours, and voilá! With some luck, you have just generated dendritic cells! You can the harvest them with a cell scraper if you so wish, but if you intend to stimulate other cells with them, maybe just leave ...

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