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Phagocytes of humans and other animals are called professional or non-professional, depending on how good they are at phagocytosis. The professional phagocytes are neutrophils, monocytes, macrophages, dendritic cells, and mast cells.
a. Monocytes are important phagocytes. b. Monocytes differentiate into macrophages (def) and dendritic cells (def) when they leave the blood and enter the tissue. Macrophages and dendritic cells are very important in phagocytosis and serve as antigen-presenting cells (def) in the adaptive immune responses (see below).