Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
erythroblast .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word erythroblasts.
Examples
-
In contrast, acute erythroleukemia is a cancer of the young red blood cells, called erythroblasts, and acute megakaryoblastic leukemia is a leukemia involving the platelet-forming cells called megakaryoblasts.
-
Among the marrow cells may be seen smaller cells, which possess a slightly pinkish hue; these are the erythroblasts or normoblasts, from which the red corpuscles of the adult are derived, and which may be regarded as descendants of the nucleated colored corpuscles of the embryo.
-
TITLE: Glutaredoxin 5 deficiency causes sideroblastic anemia by specifically impairing heme biosynthesis and depleting cytosolic iron in human erythroblasts
-
In those studies glycophorin and the transferrin receptor CD71 have been identified as the reference molecules of erythroblasts.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Claudia Filippone et al. 2010
-
EPO stimulates the production of mature erythrocytes by mediating the survival, proliferation and differentiation of unipotent erythroid progenitor cells, called erythroblasts.
-
When this happens the body cannot produce healthy stem cells (produced in the crypts of the small intestine) that produce healthy erythroblasts that produce healthy blood cells and then healthy brain and body cells.
Articles of Health 2009
-
Thus, the viability of the erythroblasts is preserved, and this is of great importance because these progenitor cells are the precursors to the mature erythrocytes.
-
Socolovsky M, Nam H, Fleming MD, Haase VH, Brugnara C, et al. (2001) Ineffective erythropoiesis in Stat5a (-/-) 5b (-/-) mice due to decreased survival of early erythroblasts.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Lina Han et al. 2009
-
Thus, the viability of the erythroblasts is preserved, and this is of great importance because these progenitor cells are the precursors to the mature erythrocytes.
-
EPO stimulates the production of mature erythrocytes by mediating the survival, proliferation and differentiation of unipotent erythroid progenitor cells, called erythroblasts.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.