HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS		QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced] Author: Keyword(s): Year:  Vol:  Page:

This Article Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Reprints/Permissions Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Maximow, E. Search for Related Content PubMed Articles by Maximow, E.

Hematopoiesis: A Primer

Correspondence regarding this Primer should be sent to Marshall A. Lichtman, M.D., 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 610, Rochester, NY 14642 or mal{at}urmc.rochester.edu

Stromal cells elaborate.
Cytokines orchestrate.
Signal transducers propagate.
Genes dictate.
Transcription factors mediate. mRNAs translate.
Proteins effectuate

Stem cells differentiate.
(It appears that they can also transmutate!)
Progenitor cells proliferate
Erythroblasts hemoglobinate
Myelocytes granulate.
Megakaryocytes fragmentate.
Mature cells circulate.

Blood cell counts fluctuate.
Red cells oxygenate.
Neutrophils emigrate.
Basophils and eosinophils degranulate.
Monocytes transfigurate.
Dendritic cells cooperate.
Lymphocytes activate.
End cells disintegrate.

Hematopoietic scientists cogitate,
Then, they may elutriate.
Hematologists medicate,
And occasionally they irradiate.
Followed sometimes by a stem cell infusate.
They also may prognosticate,
But they often over- or under-estimate.

Now we have embryonal stem cells on our plate.
Their use is undergoing ethical debate.
The point is that if one can direct their fate,
Certain diseases we could abrogate.

FOOTNOTES

¹ It was initially thought that the author is a distant relative of Paul Ehrlich, the German chemist, immunologist, and Nobel Prize laureate whose research with aniline dyes lead to the polychrome stains for blood and marrow cells and of Alexander A. Maximow, the eminent Russian embryologist and histologist, who provided the first evidence for an hematopoietic stem cell as the source of blood cells. The latter disclosure was made in a lecture delivered to the Hematologic Society of Berlin in 1909. Careful editorial inquiry uncovered that Ehrlich Maximow is the pseudonym of Marshall A. Lichtman, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

This Article Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Reprints/Permissions Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Maximow, E. Search for Related Content PubMed Articles by Maximow, E.