One of the reasons our cells die is because they are inherently programmed to have only 60 to 70 doublings. That’s it. After that, they die. Why is that?
Here’s a general pathology concept that is important not only for boards but for real life: wound healing.
Q. Immediately after an acute episode of blood loss – following a motor vehicle accident, for example – the hemoglobin level is normal. Why is that?
There are several things you should look for when evaluating a bone marrow biopsy specimen – see if you can see them in the image above.
Before you can really appreciate pathologic changes in red cells, you need to know what normal red cells look like. Here is a normal blood smear image, taken at high power.
