| 释义 |
burst-forming unit burst-forming unit A small, partially differentiated lymphocyte-like progenitor cell which arises from a pluripotent stem cell, the colony-forming unit for granulocytes(CFU-GEMM), RBCs, megakaryocytes and monocytes in the bone marrow, giving rise to either RBCs (BFU-E) or megakaryocytes (BFU-Meg); these in turn give rise to colony-forming units. The so-called bipolar BFUs have either erythroid or megakaryocytic differentiation.burst-forming-unit, burst-forming unit, BFUA stem cell that produces red blood cell progeny and not blood cells of other lineages. |