Number of blood and immune cells distributed throughout the human body
Range | ~10^13 cells/body |
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Organism | Human Homo sapiens |
Reference | Jason Cosgrove, Lucie S P Hustin, Rob J de Boer, & Leïla Perié, Hematopoiesis in numbers, Trends Immunol. 2021 Dec42(12):1100-1112. doi: 10.1016/j.it.2021.10.006. abstractPubMed ID34742656 |
Comments | Abstract: "Hematopoiesis is a dynamic process in which stem and progenitor cells give rise to the ~10^13 blood and immune cells distributed throughout the human body." |
Entered by | Ron Milo - Admin |
ID | 117350 |