10.2 Lab + Lecture Notes Flashcards
Megakaryocyte
= large, appearing multinucleate cell
- always found basal to blood sinus (which might not always be apparent in plane of section)
- undergo endomitosis
Endomitosis
= chromosome duplication without division
- seen in megakaryocytes
What are the advantages of real world microscope over virtual slides
1) Helpful to focus though cell - aiding in identification of nucleoli, primary and secondary granules
2) Helpful to adjust light source
- narrow aperture = benefits resolving power as expense of color
- wide aperture = better color contrast
Which hemoatopoietic lineage is more dependent on color contrast and which is more dependent on resolution of the slides for identification
- Resolution = important for granulocyte precursors
- Color = important for erythrocyte precursors
Describe the key morphologic features of proerythroblast cells
- large cell nucleoli and cytoplasm
- ranges from neutral to basophilic
- in common preparations is not distinguishable from myeloblast
Describe the key morphologic features of basophilic erythroblast cells
- large (usually slightly smaller than proerythroblast cells)
- basophilic cytoplasm
- lack nucleoli
Describe the key morphologic features of polychromatic erythroblast cells
- average-sized cell
- cytoplasm intermediate in color between basophilic and eosinophilic extremes
Describe the key morphologic features of othrochromatic erythroblast cells
- average-size cells
- cytoplasm equivalent in color to that of reticulocytes
Describe the key morphologic features of reticulocytes
- small, spherical eosinophilic cells
- lacks nucleus
- remnants of intracellular organelles can be visualized with special stains
- stage where cell leaves the marrow (erythrocytes are not present within the marrow - developed from reticulocytes within the blood)
Describe the key morphologic features of myeloblast cells
- large cell
- nucleoli
- not distinguishable from proerythroblast
Describe the key morphologic features of promyelocyte cells
- smaller cell
- nucleoli
- azurophilic granules appearing –> often near golgi
Describe the key morphologic features of early myelocyte cells
- need to indicate neutrophilic, basophilic, eosinophilic from this stage on in naming
- few specific granules being to accumulate intracellular
- round nucleus
Describe the key morphologic features of late lyelocyte cells
- many specific granules
- bean shaped nucleus
Describe the key morphologic features of metamyelocyte cells
- V-shaped nucleus (has an acute angle of indentation
- No basophilic metamyelocytes in LM because basophilic granules obscure the outline of nucleus
Describe the key morphologic features of band cells
= also called stab cells
- neutrophilic by definition
- C-shaped nucleus (usually no acute indents - but consider the orientation of the cell)
- 2% normally in peripheral blood
Describe the overall key morphologic features of mature granulocyte cells
- Segment nucleus
- granulocytes normally leave the bone marrow in the mature form
- if there is a large demand or a pathology may leave as late precursors as well
Nucleoli
- in common stains for blood and marrow (Wright’s, Romanovsky, Giemsa) they appear as light circular regions inside nucleus
- need to distinguish them from euchromatin/heterochromatin
- largest cells in marrow will contain nucleoli
Azurophilic granules
= extremely small granules (primary) just at the limit of LM
- blue granules in precursor cells of granulocyte lineages (promyelocyte and then in decreasing number in each of the subsequent precursors as the specific granules are increasingly produced)
Describe the general strategy for identifying marrow cells
1) Do not identify cells that are broken/damaged or not round, and regions where cells are too close or too far apart
2) Triage into 1 of 3 categories
2A) Large nucleated cells –> erythroblast, myeloblast (both will just be called blast cells) or promyelocyte
2B) Smaller cells with round nuclei and no granules = erythrocytic lineage
2C) Smaller cells with indented (bean, V, C, lobed) nuclei = granulocytic lineage = most will be neutraphils
3) Evaluate overall slide for: color, azurophilic granules, neutrophilic/eosinophilic granules
4) ID using the 3 observations - weighing key features the highest
Red Marrow
= hematopoietically active
- predominant until age 4
- in adult red marrow is confined to ends of long bones + middle of some flat bones
- ilium crest = area where we prefer to take marrow biopsies from
Yellow Marrow
= formed when hematopoietic activity declines
- adipocytes replace hematopoietic island
- balance between red and yellow marrow is dynamic - depends on demand for hematopoiesis
Stroma
= supporting tissue
ex. adipose tissue; reticular cells; CT (fibroblasts/CT and the cells that make it); blood supply
Parenchyma
=”functional tissue”
- developing blood cells (hematopoietic islands)
What is bone Marrow stroma
= cells that collaborate to control development and release of the hematopoietic cells
- contains mesenchymal derived cells and hematopoietic derived cells
- all marrow stromal cells are active in regulating + supporting hematopoiesis –> secreting cytokines fro growth, division, apoptosis as necessary
Describe the Hematopoietic derived Bone marrow stromal cells
- osteoclasts
- macrophages (monocytes) –> where born in the marrow –> entered the blood –> and then returned to the CT of marrow