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A megakaryocyte (from mega- 'large' karyo- 'cell nucleus' and -cyte 'cell') is a large bone marrow cell with a lobated nucleus that produces blood platelets ...
During thrombopoiesis, the promegakaryocyte matures into the form of a megakaryocyte. From the megakaryocyte, platelets are formed. [1] The megakaryoblast is the beginning of the thrombocytic series or platelet forming series. Megakaryoblasts typically have a large oval-shaped nucleus or a nucleus that is lobed with many nuclei. [2]
Megakaryocyte: Platelets if considered distinct cells, currently there's debate on the subject. Monocyte (white blood cell) Connective tissue macrophage (various types) Epidermal Langerhans cell: Osteoclast: in bone Dendritic cell: Microglial cell: central nervous system: Neutrophil granulocyte: myeloblast, promyelocyte, myelocyte, metamyelocyte
Diagram showing the development of different blood cells from haematopoietic stem cell to mature cells Comprehensive diagram that shows the development of different blood cells from haematopoietic stem cell to mature cells in both myeloid and lymphoid lineages.
Each megakaryocyte produces between 1,000 and 3,000 platelets during its lifetime. An average of 10 11 platelets are produced daily in a healthy adult. Reserve platelets are stored in the spleen and are released when needed by splenic contraction induced by the sympathetic nervous system.
CFU-GEMM is a colony forming unit that generates myeloid cells.CFU-GEMM cells are the oligopotential progenitor cells [1] [2] for myeloid cells; they are thus also called common myeloid progenitor cells or myeloid stem cells.
Promegakaryocyte. A promegakaryocyte is a precursor cell for a megakaryocyte, the development of which proceeds as follows: [1]. CFU-Meg (hematopoietic stem cell/hemocytoblast) → megakaryoblast → promegakaryocyte → megakaryocyte
Acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (AMKL) is life-threatening leukemia in which malignant megakaryoblasts proliferate abnormally and injure various tissues. Megakaryoblasts are the most immature precursor cells in a platelet-forming lineage; they mature to promegakaryocytes and, ultimately, megakaryocytes which cells shed membrane-enclosed particles, i.e. platelets, into the circulation.