blood cell formation

Bones are also used to store minerals, and are the site of red blood cell formation.

Even low concentrations of lead in the body can cause interference with red blood cell formation, reduced birth weights and premature births.

For red blood cell formation, see erythropoietin).

Amgen's erythropoietin, a hormone that stimulates red blood cell formation, is used in dialysis patients.

Assists in the production of protein for new cells; bolsters the immune system; and participates in red blood cell formation.

Metcalf's pioneering research revealed the control of blood cell formation and the role of hematopoietic cytokines.

CSFs are cytokines that control white blood cell formation and are responsible for resistance to infection.

His research has focused on cytokines, signal transduction pathways and the regulation of blood cell formation (hematopoiesis).

Possible side effects of Taxotere include nausea, hair loss, and bone marrow suppression (the decline or halt of blood cell formation).

Platelets are produced in blood cell formation (thrombopoiesis) in bone marrow, by budding off from megakaryocytes.

According to this terminology, the stages of red blood cell formation would be: rubriblast, prorubricyte, rubricyte, metarubricyte, and erythrocyte.

By counting the number of such cells the rate of red blood cell formation can be determined, providing an insight into bone marrow activity and anemia.

This is apparent in systems such as the circulatory system where Wnt3a leads to proliferation and expansion of hematopoietic stem cells needed for red blood cell formation.

Bones serve three major functions in the skeletal system; they act as levers, they store minerals, and they are the site of red blood cell formation.

Abnormalities in white blood cell formation, including aplastic anemia, are rare, yet are the cause of the majority of deaths attributable to dapsone therapy.

Blood cell formation occurs in all skeletal bones as children, and as we age the production sites are limited to the pelvis, ribs, sternum, and vertebrae.

Vitamin E Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin that acts as an antioxidant to protect body tissue from damage and is used red blood cell formation.

There he determined that the rate of red blood cell formation in normal animals increased when they were injected with blood plasma from rabbits that had been made anemic in the laboratory.

"Red blood cells carry iron and need iron, so it's thought that one reason for the high concentration of transferrin in bone marrow is to allow red blood cell formation," said Dr. Zetter.

The D'Andrea laboratory at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute is interested in the molecular events involved in normal blood cell formation and in the molecular cause of leukemia and other cancers.

In hematopoiesis (blood cell formation), the process begins with long-term hematopoietic stem cells that self-renew and also produce progeny cells that upon further replication go through a series of stages leading to differentiated cells without self-renewal capacity.

Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor and granulovyte CSF are given to stimulate white blood cell formation in cancer patients who are receiving chemotherapy, which tends to kill their red bone marrow cells as well as the cancer cells.

In recent years, together with Professor Warren Alexander and Dr Benjamin Kile, Hilton has established a new program using large-scale mouse genetics and genomics to identify regulators of blood cell formation, with a view to determining targets for the development of new medicines.