Cytology of a precursor (blast) cell, with features often seen even after partial differentiation into any of the more specific cell types. Wright's stain.
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Two myeloblasts with Auer rods
In cell biology, precursor cells—also called blast cells—are partially differentiated, or intermediate, and are sometimes referred to as progenitor cells. A precursor cell is a stem cell with the capacity to differentiate into only one cell type, meaning they are unipotent stem cells. In embryology, precursor cells are a group of cells that later differentiate into one organ. However, progenitor cells are considered multipotent.[1]
Due to their contribution to the development of various organs and cancers, precursor and progenitor cells have many potential uses in medicine. There is ongoing research on using these cells to build heart valves, blood vessels, and other tissues by using blood and muscle precursor cells.[2]
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it was originally thought that these cells were produced in the ventral neural tube, the embryonic precursor to the CNS. However, recent research suggests...
bone-marrow stem cell, but the specific defects responsible for these diseases remain poorly understood. Differentiation of blood precursorcells is impaired...
recognizable cell. Next in the differentiation sequence is the monoblast and the promyelocyte, which can develop into one of three different precursorcells: the...
muscle. Satellite cells are precursors to skeletal muscle cells, able to give rise to satellite cells or differentiated skeletal muscle cells. They have the...
that can make pigment. Since all pigment cell-types differentiate from the same multipotent precursorcell-type, leucism can cause the reduction in all...
granulosa cells and the ovarian surface epithelial cells are instead derived from a precursorcell called gonadal-ridge epithelial-like cell. Cumulus cells (CC)...
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transform neuronal lineage cells much more efficiently than typical human kidney epithelial cells. An embryonic adrenal precursorcell therefore seems the most...
malignant epithelial cells ("carcinoma"), would be called a hepatocarcinoma, while a malignancy arising from primitive liver precursorcells is called a hepatoblastoma...
last stage of precursorcell development before cells exit the cell cycle and assume their identity as neurons. Proliferation of these cells is more limited...
B cells differentiate into plasma cells that produce antibody molecules closely modeled after the receptors of the precursor B cell. Plasma cells are...
A melanoblast is a precursorcell of a melanocyte. These cells migrate from the trunk neural crest cells (in terms of axial level from neck to posterior...
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