Multiple choice

Which among the following tingible bodies are present inside the germinal center macrophages of the immune system?

  1. DNA fragments

  2. Phagocytosed foreign antigen

  3. A sign of macrophage apoptosis

  4. Bacterial cell wall components resistant to degradation

  5. VLA molecules

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Explanation

There is very extensive apoptotic cell death amongst light zone centrocytes and the resultant DNA fragments are visible as 'tingible bodies' within the macrophages which have phagocytosed the apoptotic lymphocytes.