After attacking the pathogens by B & T cells, What will happen to dead pathogens? where will be they recycled?

After attacking the pathogens by B & T cells, What will happen to dead pathogens? where will be they recycled?

1 Answer
Feb 27, 2018

B cells produces plasma cells which acts as a source of antibody,now after antibodies bind to their respective antigen with the #F ab# site,antigens get neutralized,after that a component of innate immune system known as Complements come and bind to the antigen antibody comples at the #Fc# site of the antibody.

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After this complex has been formed,we have several complement receptors in our body,which binds to the complement complex ,as for example #RBCs# contain such receptors,which binds to them and while passing through spleen they gets detached,and splenic macrophages destroy them and break down into particles and eliminated in blood.

So,people who lack these receptors present on #RBC# surface,suffers from a disease known as SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS (SLE)

Now for T cells,they directly cause lysis of the pathogen and release the neutralised degraded product in blood which gets excreted out(that's why when T cell releases the degraded products without neutralisation,they act as allergen,seen in heavy dose of pathogen associated with an infection)

Besides T cells too contain some of the complement receptors,and does same work like RBCs.