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unusual facts about blood cell


Blood cell

The following year leukocytes were first observed by Gabriel Andral, a French professor of medicine, and William Addison, a British physician, simultaneously.


Carl Heitzmann

Heitzmann is credited for being the first physician to describe the precursor corpuscles of red cells, structures that he referred to as hematoblasts.

Gemtuzumab ozogamicin

Serious side effects included severe myelosuppression (suppressed activity of bone marrow, which is involved in formation of various blood cells found in 98% of patients), disorder of the respiratory system, tumor lysis syndrome, Type III hypersensitivity, venous occlusion, and death.

Thomas Chang

Working with improvised materials like perfume atomizers inside his dorm room turned laboratory, Chang managed to create a permeable plastic sack that would effectively carry haemoglobin almost as effectively as a natural blood cell.


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Aminolevulinic acid synthase

One form is expressed in red blood cell precursor cells (ALAS2), whereas the other (ALAS1) is ubiquitously expressed throughout the body.

Arneth

Arneth count or Arneth index describes the nucleus of a type of white blood cell called a neutrophil in an attempt to detect disease

Donald Metcalf

His autobiography is Summon up the Blood: In dogged pursuit of the blood cell regulators (AlphaMed Press, Dayton, Ohio, USA, 2000. ISBN 1-880854-28-7.)

Ronald J. Falk

ANCAs are formed against antigens in the cytoplasm of neutrophil granulocytes (the most common type of white blood cell) and monocytes.