Instead of producing healthy, functional white blood cells, your bone marrow gets stuck churning out immature cells that never grow up properly. These defective cells, called blast cells ...

Myeloblasts are precursors to specific types of white blood cells that help your body fight infections. Too many myeloblasts may be a sign of a blood cancer like leukemia. Myeloblasts, or blast ...

Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) blast crisis phase is the last stage of the condition where there are large clusters of immature white blood cells, or blasts, in the bone marrow, organs ...

In Case 2 (Fig. 3) the white-cell count did not exceed 20,000 during the period of potassium study, and the proportion of abnormal blast forms in the peripheral blood was only 3 to 7 per cent.

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) pushes your bone marrow to make large numbers of abnormal and underdeveloped blood cells called blast cells. These cells crowd out healthy mature red blood cells ...

blast cells are immature and dysfunctional cells that develop quickly and crowd out healthy blood cells in the bone marrow. Blasts can be red blood cells, white blood cells, or platelets.

They may follow that transplant with an infusion of white blood cells from the donor ... medications before they recommend a stem cell transplant. In blast phase CML, the cancer cells rapidly ...

At some point, though, blast exposure begins to affect what's known as the neurovascular unit, a complex system that makes sure brain cells are getting enough blood. One of Ahlers' own studies ...