Practice Practical: Connective Tissue

5.  When you take antihistamines, you block effects of histamine released
from which of the following cells:  Pass your pointer over the photograph to learn the answer.

 

 

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macrophage: cleans up debris, does not secrete histaminemast cells secrete histamine; responsible for allergic reaction (delayed hypersensitivity)

 

Plasma cells (p) do not secrete histamine