Number of blood and immune cells distributed throughout the human body

Range ~10^13 cells/body
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."
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