Splenocyte

A splenocyte can be any one of the different white blood cell types as long as it is situated in the spleen or purified from splenic tissue.

Splenocytes consist of a variety of cell populations such as T and B lymphocytes, dendritic cells and macrophages, which have different immune functions.

References

The main cell types in blood

Cellular/
HSCs

Myeloid/
CFU-GEMM

CFU-GM

CFU-G:
Granulocytes

CFU-M:
Monocytes/
MPS

Macrophages	Histiocytes Kupffer cells Alveolar macrophage Microglia Osteoclasts Epithelioid cells giant cells Langhans giant cells, Foreign-body giant cell Touton giant cells

CFU-DL	Dendritic cells Langerhans cell

Common

Myelomonocyte

CFU-Baso

Granulocytes
- Basophil

CFU-Eos

Granulocytes
- Eosinophil

MEP

CFU-Meg	Megakaryoblast Promegakaryocyte Megakaryocyte Platelets

CFU-E	Reticulocyte Normoblast

CFU-Mast

Mast cell precursors

Noncellular

Plasma

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 6/23/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.