In the laboratory, they will undoubtedly stimulate renewed interest in how autoantibodies inhibit megakaryocyte maturation and platelet production. Inconsistent effects of autoantibodies have been ...
Common ancestors. Many granulocyte and macrophage precursors have common ancestral cells, as do many erythroid and megakaryocyte precursors. Heterogeneity of individual cells. In each maturation ...
It is recognized that these cases will be difficult to understand until methods for quantitating megakaryocyte number and platelet production rate are widely applied in man. 6 The importance of ...
Acanthocyte Erythrocyte identified by numerous spiny cytoplasmic projections; similar to a Burr cell Acanthocytosis, condition in which the majority of erythrocytes are acanthocytes. Anemia ...
KEY POINTS A 22-year-old White man presented to the emergency department with a 2-month history of progressive fatigue, intermittent abdominal pain, constipation, and dyspnea. He had gained 27 kg over ...