Chap 10: Platelet Production, Structure and Function Flashcards
Nonnucleated blood cells that circulate at a concentration of 150 to 400 x10^9/L
Platelets
Platelets that arise from unique bone marrow cells are called
Megakaryocytes
Are the largest cells in the bone marrow and possess multiple chromosome copies (polyploid)
Megakaryocytes
Megakaryocytes account for less than what percentage of all bone marrow cells?
0.5%
Responding to the growth factor thrombopoietin (TPO), megakaryocyte progenitors are recruited from
Common myeloid progenitors
T/F: Megakaryocytes are also found in the lungs
TRUE
Megakaryocyte progenitors arise from the common myeloid progenitor under the influence of what transcription gene product?
GATA-1 regulated by cofactor FOG1
GATA-1 stands for
Globin transcription factor-1
FOG1 stands for
“Friend of GATA” (a product of the ZFPM1 (zinc finger protein multitype 1) gene)
Three megakaryocyte lineage-committed progenitor stages, defined by their in vitro culture colony characteristics arise from
Common Myeloid Progenitor
Least mature progenitor
Burst-forming unit (BFU-Meg)
Intermediate progenitor
Colony-forming unit (CFU-Meg)
More mature progenitor
Light-density CFU (LD-CFU-Meg)
These two are diploid and undergo normal mitosis to maintain a viable pool of megakaryocyte progenitor
BFU-Meg and CFU-Meg
All three progenitor stages resemble lymphocytes and CANNOT be distinguished by
Wright-stained light microscopy
Undergoes endomitosis
LD-CFU-Meg
A partially characterized form of mitosis unique to megakaryocytes in which DNA replication and cytoplasmic maturation are normal but cells lose their capacity to divide
Endomitosis
Forrm of mitosis that lacks telophase and cytokinesis (separation into daughter cells)
Endomitosis
Megakaryocyte progenitors leave the proliferative phase and enter
Terminal differentiation
Series of membrane-lined channels that invade from the plasma membrane and grow inward to subdi- vide the entire cytoplasm
Demarcation System (DMS)
Biologically identical to the megakaryocyte plasma membrane and ultimately delineates the individual platelets during thrombocytopoiesis.
Demarcation System (DMS)
Nuclear lobularity first becomes apparent as an indentation at the 4N replication stage, rendering the cell identifiable as an
MK-II stage, or promegakaryocyte