Chemical Cuisine. CSPI ranks the safety of food additivesâfrom acetic acid to yellow prussiate of sodaâin this definitive glossary of the chemicals used to flavor and preserve our foods. ShareThis. Deciding what foods to buy was simpler when most food came from farms.
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.
phagocyte-a cell that engulfs and digests debris and invading microorganisms. scavenger cell. somatic cell, vegetative cell-any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells; a cell that does not participate in the production of gametes; somatic cells are produced from preexisting cells; macrophage-a large phagocyte; some are fixed and other circulate in the blood stream.