Histology                                                                                                                     Stanley Shostak
BioSc 1450                                                                                                                  Spring 05

Lecture 9. Hematopoiesis

self-renewing vs. transient: determinism vs. differentiation (mitotic and non-mitotic)

Cells : all formed in bone marrow (h[a]ematopoiesis)

divisional (mitosis) in bone marrow:
pluripotential hematopoietic stem cell (small population: set aside stem cells)
self renewing pluripotent stem cell burst or -blast (blast forming unit: BFU) (proerythroblast; lymphoblast; myeloblast; monocytoblast, megakaryoblast) mitotic but not self renewing transient stem cell = colony forming unit (CFU) bipotential stem cell: composite granulocyte-monocyte [GM] colony forming unit
unipotent stem cell: basophilic erythroblast = early normoblast; promyelocyte, promonocyte
post-divisional erythrocyte line erythrocyte line: normoblast Intermediate normoblast = polychromatophilic erythroblast

Late normoblast = orthochromatic erythroblast

reticulocyte
 post-divisional myelocyte (monocyte) line metamyelocyte
stab cell (band cell) definitive myelocytes and monocytes
megakaryoblasts > megakaryocytes > fragmentation of platelets and regeneration
last revised: 02-01-05