A nucleated red blood cell (NRBC), also known by several other names, is a red blood cell that contains a cell nucleus. Almost all vertebrate organisms...
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information about the cells in a person's blood. The CBC indicates the counts of white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets, the concentration of hemoglobin...
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Red blood cells (RBCs), referred to as erythrocytes (from Ancient Greek erythros 'red' and kytos 'hollow vessel', with -cyte translated as 'cell' in modern...
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abnormal cells. The manual differential is therefore considered the reference method for these cells. Analyzers may count nucleated red blood cells, giant...
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buffy coat, a thin, typically white layer of nucleated cells between the sedimented red blood cells and the blood plasma. The scientific term leukocyte directly...
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Proerythroblast (category Blood cells)
proerythroblast (or rubriblast, or pronormoblast) is a precursor cell to the normoblast (nucleated red blood cell), as the earliest of four stages in its development...
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(erythrocytes), white blood cells (leukocytes), and (in mammals) platelets (thrombocytes). The most abundant cells are red blood cells. These contain hemoglobin...
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found, each containing numerous nuclei or one compound nucleus. Nucleated red blood cells have also been found in the spleen of young animals. Macrophages...
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Antigen type. It will also be examined for nucleated cell count, cell viability, blood group antigen ABO & Rh blood group system, molecule cluster (CD34),...
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Bernstein, PS; Minior, VK; Divon, MY (November 1997). "Neonatal nucleated red blood cell counts in small-for-gestational age fetuses with abnormal umbilical...
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have no nucleus. Nucleated red blood cells present in a sample of bone marrow can indicate the release of incompletely developed cells. This can occur...
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T cells are one of the important types of white blood cells of the immune system and play a central role in the adaptive immune response. T cells can...
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hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. This usually takes the form of a bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplantation, but the cells can also be...
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type of white blood cell) that kills cancer cells, cells that are infected by intracellular pathogens (such as viruses or bacteria), or cells that are damaged...
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Platelet (redirect from Blood platelet)
and κύτος (kútos) 'cell') are a blood component whose function (along with the coagulation factors) is to react to bleeding from blood vessel injury by...
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plasma cell leukemia as the presence in blood of >2x109 plasma cells per liter or, alternatively, >20% of nucleated blood cells being plasma cells. More...
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comparison NPV negative predictive value NRB non-rebreather mask NRBC nucleated red blood cells NREM non–rapid eye movement NRT nicotine replacement therapy n...
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Eukaryotic cells usually have a single nucleus, but a few cell types, such as mammalian red blood cells, have no nuclei, and a few others including osteoclasts...
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G1 phase. Cells are broadly classified into two main categories: simple non-nucleated prokaryotic cells and complex nucleated eukaryotic cells. Due to their...
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of 1 in 10,000–1,000,000 of the nucleated cells. Despite this low number of MSC's, isolated bone marrow nucleated cells implanted into degenerated human...
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own red blood cells are dangerous, foreign substances. Antibodies then develop against the red blood cells. The antibodies attach to red blood cells and...
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Hemolymph (redirect from Insect blood)
all cells. It contains hemocyanin, a copper-based protein that turns blue when oxygenated, instead of the iron-based hemoglobin in red blood cells found...
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(also known as nucleated red blood cells). Positive direct Coombs test (might be negative after fetal interuterine blood transfusion) Blood tests done on...
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Duffy antigen system (redirect from Duffy blood-group system)
by the ACKR1 gene. The Duffy antigen is located on the surface of red blood cells, and is named after the patient in whom it was discovered. The protein...
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Iron-deficiency anemia (section Blood loss)
Anemia is defined as a decrease in the number of red blood cells or the amount of hemoglobin in the blood. When onset is slow, symptoms are often vague such...
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Hemoglobin G, Hemoglobin G-Philadelphia, or hbG, is a mutation of the cells that oxygenate blood. The G-Philadelphia variant is most commonly found in African...
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Monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (MBL) is an asymptomatic condition in which individuals have increased blood levels of particular subtypes of monoclonal...
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Hemolytic jaundice (category Blood disorders)
hemolysis or excessive destruction of red blood cells, when the byproduct bilirubin is not excreted by the hepatic cells quickly enough. Unless the patient...
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Myelodysplastic syndrome (category Syndromes affecting blood)
or lead. Problems with blood cell formation result in some combination of low red blood cell, platelet, and white blood cell counts. Some types of MDS...
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leukemia). Sideroblasts (sidero- + -blast) are nucleated erythroblasts (precursors to mature red blood cells) with granules of iron accumulated in the mitochondria...
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