where in the body are phagocytes produced?

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where in the body are phagocytes produced?

is it spleen, liver, thymus, bone marrow?

2007-05-04 15:01:11 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology

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After birth, bone marrow. In the developing fetus, phagocytes are formed first in the yolk sac, then the liver, then the spleen. Before birth, lymphoid cells (B & T cells, not phagocytes) are also formed in lymph nodes/thymus.

2007-05-04 15:17:13 · answer #1 · answered by joie_du_cor 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋

Phagocytes are produced in the bone marrow.

2007-05-05 01:26:37 · answer #2 · answered by KZ 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋

Phagocytes (monocytes -> macrophages and polymorphonuclear (PMN) Neutrophils) are primarily produced in the bone marrow.

2007-05-04 22:07:02 · answer #3 · answered by Orinoco 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋

bone marrow.

2007-05-04 22:14:57 · answer #4 · answered by Lis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋