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Monday, 14 July 2014

The removal of dying cells is, to a greater extent, handled by fixed Macrophages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrophage

The removal of dying cells is, to a greater extent, handled by fixed macrophages, which will stay at strategic locations such as the lungs, liver, neural tissue, bone, spleen and connective tissue, ingesting foreign materials such as pathogens and recruiting additional macrophages if needed.

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