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Marrowquant can quantify multiple bone components in histological images – News-Medical.Net
The bone marrow is the soft tissue inside our bones. Its main role is to produce stem cells that will go on to become various cells of the blood, including white blood cells that fight infections, red blood cells that carry oxygen throughout the body, and pla…
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Sep 28 2020
The bone marrow is the soft tissue inside our bones. Its main role is to produce stem cells that will go on to become various cells of the blood, including white blood cells that fight infections, red blood cells that carry oxygen throughout the body, and platelets that control bleeding.
But the bone marrow also contains fat cells, the adipocytes, which were for a long time thought of as “passive fillers” of the marrow cavity. In recent years, howe…
