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3. ERYTHROPOIESIS Flashcards

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Mature erythrocytes are

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Nonnucleated, biconcave discs with a central pallor that occupies one-third of the cell.

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ERYTHROCYTES Life span

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120 days

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ERYTHROCYTES Main function

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transports or carries oxygen from the lungs to the tissues where oxygen is released

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ERYTHROCYTES Secondary function

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transports carbon dioxide from the tissues to the lungs + buffers the pH of the blood

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MATURATION PROCESS rbc

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Pluripotent HSC → Common Myeloid Progenitor (CMP) → Burst-Forming Unit Erythroid (BFU-E) → + IL 3, GM-CSF, Kit Ligand → CFU-E → + Erythropoietin → RBC Precursor cells → Mature RBC

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earliest committed progenitor; gives rise to large colonies

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Burst-Forming Unit-Erythroid

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gives rise to smaller colonies of RBC

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Colony-Forming Unit-Erythroid

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BFU-E → mature RBC time

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18- 21 days

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BFU-E → CFU-E time

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1 week

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CFU-E → pronormoblast time

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1 week

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Pronormoblast → mature RBC time

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6 to 7 days

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The oxygen carrying component of RBC

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Hemoglobin

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cell division + maturation

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Normoblastic proliferation

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Erythrocyte precursor cells

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Pronormoblast → Basophilic normoblast → Polychromatic normoblast → Orthochromic normoblast →
Polychromatic erythrocyte

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immature RBCs | nucleated precursors in the BM | developing nucleated
cells with normal appearance

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Erythroblasts/Normoblasts

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mature RBCs

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Erythrocytes

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Last stage that can undergo mitosis

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Polychromatophilic normoblasts

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NORMOBLASTIC nomenclature

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Pronormoblast

Basophilic normoblast

Polychromatic (polychromatophilic)
normoblast

Orthochromic normoblast

Polychromatic (polychromatophilic)
erythrocyte*

Erythrocyte

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RUBRIBLASTIC Nomenclature

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Rubriblast

Prorubricyte

Rubricyte

Metarubricyte

Polychromatic (polychromatophilic)
erythrocyte*

Erythrocyte

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ERYTHROBLASTIC Nomenclature

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Proerythroblast

Basophilic erythroblast

Polychromatic (polychromatophilic)
erythroblast

Orthochromic erythroblast

Polychromatic (polychromatophilic)
erythrocyte*

Erythrocyte

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CRITERIA USED IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF ERYTHROID PRECURSORS

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❖ Diameter of the cell decreases

❖ Diameter of nucleus decreases more rapidly than the cell | N:C ratio decreases

❖ Nuclear chromatin pattern → coarser, clumped, condensed (raspberry-like appearance)

❖ Nucleoli disappears → cessation of protein synthesis

❖ Cytoplasm changes from blue to gray-blue (Basophilic) to salmon pink (Acidophilic/Eosinophilic)

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blueness fades due to

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ribosomes + other organelles ↓

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Basophilia is caused by

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amount of ribosomal RNA

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Basic stain

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methylene blue

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due to its acidic components which attract basic stain

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Blueness or basophilia

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due to its basic components which attract acid stain

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Pinkness or eosinophilia/acidophilia

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Acid stain

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eosin

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Eosinophilia is caused by

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accumulation of hemoglobin

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29
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Rubriblast (Pronormoblast) SIZE

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12-19 µm

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Rubriblast
(Pronormoblast) N:C RATIO

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8:1

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Rubriblast (Pronormoblast) NUCLEUS

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Contains 1 or 2 nucleoli

Large, round nucleus

Chromatin is purple red and has a fine pattern

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Rubriblast (Pronormoblast) CYTOPLASM

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Deep blue (due to ribosomesRNA activity) without granules

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Rubriblast (Pronormoblast) FEATURES

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❖ Earliest recognizable stage
❖ High RNA activity (needed for
production of CHONs required for Hgb synthesis)
❖ Globin production begins

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Prorubricyte (Basophilic Normoblast) CYTOPLASM

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Deeper, richer blue

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Prorubricyte (Basophilic Normoblast) FEATURES

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❖ Most helpful criteria (when comparing with rubriblast): coarser chromatin and absence of nucleoli

❖ Start of hemoglobin synthesis (Hgb pigmentation not yet evident)

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Prorubricyte (Basophilic Normoblast) SIZE

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12-17 µm

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Prorubricyte (Basophilic Normoblast) N:C
RATIO

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6:1

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Prorubricyte (Basophilic Normoblast) NUCLEUS

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Nucleoli may be present in the early
stage but disappears later

Nuclear chromatin is deep purple red and begins to condense

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Preparatory stage - produces proteins and enzymes necessary for cellular activities

Globin production

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Pronormoblast

40
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cellular activities prepared in pronormoblast stage

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Hemoglobin synthesis
Iron uptake
Protoporphyrin synthesis

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Rubricyte (Polychromatophilic
normoblast) SIZE

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Rubricyte (Polychromatophilic
normoblast) N:C RATIO

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Rubricyte (Polychromatophilic
normoblast) NUCLEUS

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Increased clumping of the chromatin
No nucleoli are present

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Rubricyte (Polychromatophilic
normoblast) FEATURES

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❖ Hemoglobin synthesis increases
(Hgb pigmentation becomes evident)
❖ Last stage capable of mitosis
❖ Polychromatophilic – many color
❖ Progressive ↓ in DNA synthesis

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Rubricyte (Polychromatophilic
normoblast) CYTOPLASM

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Pink (Hgb)+ blue = murky gray-blue

46
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Two components of hemoglobin

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Heme and globin

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Pronormoblast can be found where

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Only in bone marrow except for pathologic conditions

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Metarubricyte (Orthochromic normoblast or nucleated RBC/NRBC) SIZE

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Metarubricyte (Orthochromic normoblast or nucleated RBC/NRBC) N:C RATIO

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Metarubricyte (Orthochromic normoblast or nucleated RBC/NRBC) NUCLEUS

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Chromatin pattern is tightly/completely condensed = Pyknotic nucleus

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Metarubricyte (Orthochromic normoblast or nucleated RBC/NRBC) CYTOPLASM

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Reddish pink

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Metarubricyte (Orthochromic normoblast or nucleated RBC/NRBC) FEATURES

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❖ Last nucleated stage
❖ Hgb synthesis continues
❖ Loss of vimentin (a protein which hold organelles in proper location in the cytoplasm)
❖ Nucleus expulsion or extrusion occurs
❖ Pyrenocyte (pyknotic/enveloped extruded nucleus) → engulfed by BM macrophages

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Why did basophilia increase in prorubricyte

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Increase rate of protein synthesis and hemoglobin

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Reticulocyte (Polychromatophilic erythrocyte) N:C RATIO

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wala, ulol

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Reticulocyte (Polychromatophilic erythrocyte) NUCLEUS

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Cell is anuclear
Diffuse reticulum

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Reticulocyte (Polychromatophilic erythrocyte) CYTOPLASM

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Various degrees of polychromasia (mixed pink and blue staining)

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Reticulocyte (Polychromatophilic erythrocyte) FEATURES

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❖ End-stage of Hgb synthesis
❖ Diffusely basophilic erythrocyte (Wright stain)
❖ Reticulocyte (Supravital stain)
❖ Endoribonuclease digests the ribosomes
❖ Resides in the BM for 1-2/2-3 days prior to its release in the PB
❖ Stays in the PB for about 1 day before becoming mature RBC

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Basophilic normoblast can only be found where

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Bone marrow except for pathologic conditions

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Reticulocyte (Polychromatophilic
erythrocyte) SIZE

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Erythrocyte FEATURES

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❖ Erythrocytes cannot divide
❖ No mitochondria
❖ Biconcave disc (discocyte)
❖ Hemoglobin is the cell’s main component

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Erythrocyte SIZE

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Erythrocyte NUCLEUS

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Cell is anuclear

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Erythrocyte CYTOPLASM

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Salmon-pink with central pale area

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Metarubricyte is also known as

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Nucleated red blood cell

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Pronormoblast Nucleoli

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Pronormoblast %in Bone Marrow

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Pronormoblast Bone Marrow
Transit Time

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Basophilic normoblast Nucleoli

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Basophilic normoblast %in Bone Marrow

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Basophilic normoblast Bone Marrow Transit Time

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Polychromatic normoblast Nucleoli

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Polychromatic normoblast %in Bone Marrow

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Polychromatic normoblast Bone Marrow Transit Time

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Orthochromic normoblast Nucleoli

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Orthochromic normoblast %in Bone
Marrow

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Orthochromic normoblast Bone Marrow Transit Time

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Polychromatic erythrocyte Nucleoli

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Polychromatic erythrocyte %in Bone Marrow

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Polychromatic erythrocyte
Bone Marrow Transit Time

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24-48 hours

80
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contributes to the movement of nucleus to the periphery of the cell

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Vimentin reduction in cell

81
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How many are produced in 1 pronormoblast

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❖ 16/ 8-32 mature RBCs

82
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Nucleus extrusion process

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Vimentin reduction
Pseudopodal movement of nucleus to cytoplasm
Pinching

83
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Outer membrane of pyrenocyte

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Phosphatidylserine

84
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As proteins accumulate, the number of organelles gradually

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diminishes

85
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most important in the early stages of RBC development; serves as the site for DNA and RNA synthesis

86
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composed of DNA, histones and other CHONs

87
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inactive; appears more condensed; takes up basic dye (basophilic color – dark blue)

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Heterochromatin

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active; appears more open/granular; does not take up basic dye

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Eurochromatin

89
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in the cytoplasm of early erythrocyte precursors serves as site of globin synthesis and
other CHONs

90
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site of aerobic generation of energy for the maturing cell and insertion of ferrous iron into protoporphyrin IX (heme synthesis)

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Mitochondria

91
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heme synthesis process

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insertion of ferrous iron into protoporphyrin IX

92
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🖝 can be found freely dispersed in the cytoplasm
🖝 they are bound to vesicles

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Iron (in the form of ferritin)

93
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→ferritin appears as small blue aggregates called

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siderotic granules

94
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Iron (in the form of ferritin) can be stained using

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Prussian blue

95
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Reticulocyte spend how much time in the bone marrow and in the circulation

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1-2-3 days in bone marrow
24 hours in circulation to mature

96
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Basophilic stipplings are found in

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Punctate basophilic erythrocyte

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