Question

Which of the following differentiate into macrophages and dendritic cells?

Answer 1

Answer:

The white blood cells that can be differentiated into macrophages and dendritic cells are monocytes.

Explanation:

Monocytes are leukocytes with an important function within the immune system, responsible for recognizing and eliminating harmful agents through phagocytosis.

The phagocytic function of monocytes causes them to be included in a group of leukocytes called the mononuclear phagocytic system.

When it is circulating in the blood it is called monocyte, and it can give rise to a special type of antigen-presenting cell, called dendritic cell. A monocyte that arrives and remains in a tissue is called a macrophage.

    Other options are not correct because mast cells, lymphocytes and neutrophils perform other functions within the immune system, do not belong to the phagocytic-mononuclear system and can not differentiate into macrophages.