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Animal Histology

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Talk about monocytes.

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Main professional phagocytes, represent largest normal leukocytes in blood, shape is rounded and nucleus is bulky, central or peripheral, kidney shaped, cytoplasm is characterized by presence of some azurophilic granules (lysosomes seen by EM) organelles appear poorly developed, lifetime is very short, 24 hours in blood, in tissues they differentiate into macrophage.


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