The macrophage.

Date:
1975
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Description

Dr Ian Carr lectures on one of the most important phagocytic cells, the macrophage. Macrophages are white blood cells found within tissues, produced by the division of monocytes. Their main function is the engulfment and digestion of cellular debris and pathogens. Here, Wall focuses on four main points about the cell: what it looks like; where it be found - its origins and circulation; how it works at a cellular level to ingest foreign material; and what its main role is in bodily function.

Publication/Creation

London : University of London Audio-Visual Centre, 1975.

Physical description

1 videocassette (Umatic) (37.16 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.
1 videocassette (1-inch) (37.16 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.
1 videocassette (Digibeta) (37.16 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.
1 DVD (37.16 min.) : sound, black and white.

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Notes

This video is one of around 310 titles, originally broadcast on Channel 7 of the ILEA closed-circuit television network, given to Wellcome Trust from the University of London Audio-Visual Centre shortly after it closed in the late 1980s. Although some of these programmes might now seem rather out-dated, they probably represent the largest and most diversified body of medical video produced in any British university at this time, and give a comprehensive and fascinating view of the state of medical and surgical research and practice in the 1970s and 1980s, thus constituting a contemporary medical-historical archive of great interest. The lectures mostly take place in a small and intimate studio setting and are often face-to-face. The lecturers use a wide variety of resources to illustrate their points, including film clips, slides, graphs, animated diagrams, charts and tables as well as 3-dimensional models and display boards with movable pieces. Some of the lecturers are telegenic while some are clearly less comfortable about being recorded; all are experts in their field and show great enthusiasm to share both the latest research and the historical context of their specialist areas.

Creator/production credits

Presented by Dr Ian Carr, University of Sheffield and Weston Park Hospital. Film sequences of macrophages in culture made by Professor F Jacoby, Department of Anatomy, University College Cardiff. Produced by Trevor A Scott. Made for British Postgraduate Medical Federation. Made by University of London Audio-Visual Centre.

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University of London.

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