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What property determines the specific range of activity for hematopoietic growth factors (example, IL-3 or GM-CSF)?

Select the cell types formed from the progenitor cell CFU-GM:

A bone marrow is performed on a 40 year old female patient. Cellularity is estimated at 15%. How should the marrow be described?

Apoptosis is directed by:

A physician orders a complete blood count for a patient in the emergency room. Identify the appropriate anticoagulant to use for the collection of this sample:

*****BONUS***** These values (from the question above) were provided in conventional units – convert to SI units. This must be completely correct to receive bonus credit! WBC: 4.0 x 103/uL RBC: 3.4 x 106/uL HGB: 11.4 g/dL HCT: 35% PLTS: 355 x 103/uL

Wright’s stain is a type of Romanowsky stain that combines which two dyes?  Select 2 choices from below.

The following CBC values are reported in conventional units, convert and report the values in SI units: WBC: 24.0 x 103/uL RBC: 2.6 x 106/uL HGB: 7.5 g/dL HCT:  24% PLTS: 355 x 103/uL

Very young progenitor cells can be identified by immunophenotyping and detection of:

Senescent (old, aged) erythrocytes are removed from circulation by macrophages in the