This Cell is Inside You
And you’d be dead without it
This weird-looking cell is inside your body and it’s crucial for your survival. It’s called a dendritic cell.
It also has a very interesting job: eating and vomiting stuff.
That’s right! The dendritic cell’s job is to go around your body and constantly intaking stuff and then vomiting it out. Very useful I know!
But it’s most useful when an infection is taking place. Once it encounters a bacteria, it swallows it and breaks it into pieces. If that wasn’t cruel enough, it starts displaying the bacteria pieces in its octopus-like tentacles.
Kind of like this:
Once it knows that it swallowed a bacteria, it stops vomiting stuff and starts heading towards another type of cell: T cells.
What the Hell are T Cells?
T cells are part of the magnificent Adaptive Immune System. As its name suggests, it can adapt to almost any disease there is.
So from the common cold to Ebola, to literally giant parasites, whatever it is, your Adaptive Immune System is prepared for it.
