If You Treated a Macrophage with Colchicine (A Microtubular Assembly

question 146

Multiple Choice

If you treated a macrophage with colchicine (a microtubular assembly inhibitor) , what would likely happen to the rate of phagocytosis? What would likely happen to the rate of phagocytosis if you treated the macrophage with cytochalain B (an inhibitor of microfilament contractile activities) ?

• A)Nothing would happen after colchicine exposure. The rate would rise after cytochalasin B exposure
• B)The rate would drop after colchicine exposure. Nothing would happen after cytochalasin B exposure.
• C)Nothing would happen after colchicine exposure. The rate would drop after cytochalasin B exposure.
• D)The rate would rise after colchicine exposure. Nothing would happen after cytochalasin B exposure.
• E)Nothing would happen after treatment with either inhibitor.

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