2 ms·
Macrophages, like the ones that liv in your mouth, also eat virus: https://askabiologist.asu.edu/macrophage https://askabiologist.asu.edu/macrophage
by nomel 4y ago
Macrophages, like the ones that liv in your mouth, also eat virus: https://askabiologist.asu.edu/macrophage https://askabiologist.asu.edu/macrophage
- d1sxeyes 4y agoI think the use of the word 'eat' is a bit non-specific. Macrophages cannot survive on a diet of virus. They can absolutely 'eat' it in the sense of taking it from outside the cell, breaking it down into constituent components inside the cell, and then putting it back outside the cell as waste, but they can't use viruses as a food source.