Anatom3DHaematopoietic stem cells
Cellulae praecursoriae haematopoieticae · Krvetvorné kmenové buňky
Blood & marrow
Looks like
Rare cells in the red bone marrow that look like small lymphocytes and are found by their surface markers.
What it does
Make every kind of blood cell for life — hundreds of billions each day.
Keeping it well
Damaged by chemotherapy, radiation and some drugs; failure causes aplastic anaemia. Donated stem cells can replace them in a transplant.
Related conditions
- Acute leukaemia (AML & ALL)
- African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
- Anaemia
- Aplastic anaemia & marrow failure
- Chronic leukaemia (CML & CLL)
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Dehydration & electrolyte disorders
- Delirium
- Dengue & mosquito-borne fevers
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Disseminated intravascular coagulation
- Ebola virus disease
- Essential thrombocythaemia
- G6PD deficiency (favism)
- Haemophilia & bleeding disorders
- Hereditary spherocytosis
- High cholesterol
- Immune thrombocytopenia
- Iron deficiency
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Mast cell activation & mastocytosis
- Maternal (puerperal) sepsis
- MGUS (monoclonal gammopathy)
- MRSA and resistant staph infection
- Multiple myeloma
- Myelodysplastic syndromes
- Myelofibrosis
- Neonatal sepsis
- Neutropenic sepsis
- Parvovirus B19 (fifth disease)
- Polycythaemia vera
- Postpartum haemorrhage
- Radiation injury
- Scrub typhus & rickettsial infections
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Thalassaemia
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Typhoid & cholera
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency
- Von Willebrand disease