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Platelet Formation

Hematopoiesis

Hematopoiesis

Myeloid progenitor cells differentiate into promegakaryocytes, and megakaryocytes, which release platelets.

From left to right, top to bottom: HSC (GO), HSC, L-blast, lymphocyte; progenitor, mo-blast, monocyte; progenitor, myeloblast, pro-m, myelocyte, meta-M, band, seg, neutrophil; progenitor, myeloblast, eosinophil, basophil; progenitor, pro-e, baso-e, poly-e, erythrocyte; progenitor, promegakaryocyte, megokaryocyte, platelet.

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