Sentences with phrase «immature cells called»

The bone marrow should respond to anemia by producing more red blood cells; therefore, an increase in the number of immature cells called reticulocytes should be seen on lab results.

In patients with leukemia, immature cells called «blasts» overtake their healthy bone marrow.

Plant and animal tissues start off as immature cells called stem cells.

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In APL, immature white blood cells called promyelocytes increase in abnormal numbers and accumulate in the bone marrow.

These dots are called «milia» and are caused from immature oil glands and dead skin cells being trapped underneath your baby's skin.

A newborn has more red blood cells than his body needs, and often, when a baby's immature liver can't process them quickly enough, a yellow pigment called bilirubin (a by - product of the red blood cells) builds up in the blood.

The mice benefited from human stem cells called glial progenitors, immature cells poised to become astrocytes and other glia cells, the supposed support cells of the brain.

These mutant parasites are able to survive and multiply inside immature red blood cells called reticulocytes, without making hemozoin.

The most striking abnormalities were a markedly elevated white blood cell count of 28,500 per cubic milliliter (the normal level is about 5,000 to 10,000) and what is called a shift to the left, which refers to a large increase in the number of mature and immature granulocytes, cells that increase in number when an acute infection must be fought off.

Immature egg cells begin this way, but are transformed through a process called meiosis into mature egg cells that only have one copy of each chromosome.

The exosomes produced during environmental enrichment carry microRNAs — small pieces of genetic material — which appear to instruct immature cells in the brain to develop into myelin - making cells called oligodendrocytes.

Stem cell scientist Martin Pera of the University of Melbourne in Australia, calls it an «exciting study» that demonstrates that the environment within an adult body can help immature stem cells develop to an adult stage, something that has proven difficult to do in vitro.

In a third of MDS cases, over time, very immature bone marrow cells called blasts may increase in number and fill the bone marrow, displacing the normal red and white blood cells and platelets that are produced there.

They formed tiny spheres — often called tumor spheres — and expressed proteins typically found in immature neural progenitor cells.

Small populations of immature nerve cells are found in the adult mammalian brain, a process called neurogenesis.

Women have immature egg cells in the protective lining of their ovaries that are called EggPC cells.

The team, headed by professor Juan Carlos Ispizúa Belmonte, Ph.D., of the Gene Expression Laboratory and including professor Fred Gage, Ph.D., of the Laboratory of Genetics, demonstrates how a DNA - binding protein called Nanog coaxes mouse ES cells trying to differentiate into muscle cells back into an immature state.

In some cats, the blood will be full of immature white blood cells called lymphoblasts.

For example, the presence of increased numbers of immature white blood cells, called band neutrophils or bands for short, indicate a serious infection.