I just want to understand what exactly is the advantage of using one of those cells over the other.
*edit: my bad for the poor title, it’s supposed to be why does neutrophils attack first when T cells and macrophages are considerably stronger?
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So yeh it’s quite a long answer to give fully, I would recommend a good book or YouTube video on the subject, but essentially yes each of the white blood cells has certain advantages and disadvantages, which result in them being strategically used at different times/areas. Neutrophils are much better generally against a say bacterial infection, as it has much more and varied defensive capabilities which could tackle a wider range of infections, and much more deadly, their problem is that they’re so powerful that they are very likely to damage healthy cells around them, and so are less able to discriminate. So for that reason they have shorted life spans, and are rarely found in organs/important places, instead usually found in big pools waiting for a place to attack hard and fast first, before the slightly slower but more accurate macrophages can come and take over.
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