10-16 Blood and hematopoiesis – HISTOLOGY. IN CONSTRUCTION. An interactive site that uses a unique way to indicate components of tissues and organs in about 400 images of tissue sections, obtained with an optical microscope.

HEMATOPOIESIS

CELLS OF THE ERYTHROCYTIC AND GRANULOCYTIC LINEAGES

Erythrocytic Lineage -blue arrows. Basophilic Erythroblasts – small cells, dense chromatin nuclei, basophilic (bluish) cytoplasm.

Granulocytic Lineage – red arrow. Neutrophile metamyelocyte – large cell, elongated nucleus, lighter (bluish) colored cytoplasm, resembling that of a neutrophil.

Bone marrow smear. Staining: Leishman. Large magnification.

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