Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is characterized by a rapidly - developing cancer in the myeloid line of blood cells, which is responsible for producing red blood cells, platelets and
several types of white blood cells called granulocytes.
Within 10 days,
several types of white blood cells were completely mixed, but even after 6 months, each mouse contained only its own Langerhans cells, the team reports online 4 November in Nature Immunology.
Not exact matches
In addition to assessing the
types and numbers
of white blood cells, the CBC measures the number
of red
blood cells and
several different features
of them as well.