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Bone marrow cells

Bone marrow cells

The fat cells (adipocytes), large nucleated cells or myelocytes, and giant cells called megakaryocytes, filling the meshes making up the bone marrow, a meshwork of connective tissue containing branching fibres.


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T cell differentiation

In a nutshell, T cells (or their progenitors, rather) first divide actively and start to differentiate in the bone marrow, then migrate to thymus where they continue to mature (including ...

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by biohazard
Fri May 08, 2009 6:53 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: T cell differentiation
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Views: 2303

Re: Male eggs and female sperm. Please help!

... biologists are trying to make genetically male cells develop into eggs, and female cells into sperm. ... April last year, he made headlines by taking bone marrow stem cells from adult men and making them develop ...

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by sanjidcapa
Tue May 05, 2009 8:59 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Male eggs and female sperm. Please help!
Replies: 4
Views: 1359

Re: Artificial Meiosis and gamete production

... and Melbourne- Australia, research using stem cells to create sperm has been achieved. Newcastle in particular has created stem cells from adult bone marrow and both Sheffield and Atlanta are saying they are ...

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by profess75
Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:13 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Artificial Meiosis and gamete production
Replies: 5
Views: 1564

Re:

... "differentiated", which means the cells have "matured" from their progenitor ... there are haematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow, which are not yet differentiated (=specialised) ...

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by MikeJ
Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:50 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Cells are 'Specialized'- What does this mean?
Replies: 5
Views: 1280

Re: how does innate immunity link to b-cell and t-cell responses

... fever, inflammation, natural killer cells, complement proteins) 2. Adaptive (specific) ... and T-cells are both lymphocytes made in the bone marrow. The thymus gland is essential in the development ...

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by favorina
Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:55 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: how does innate immunity link to b-cell and t-cell responses
Replies: 1
Views: 837
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