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What are three defining characteristics that would help the laboratory professional differentiate between a blast and an activated lymphocyte?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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What is the difference between polyclonal antibodies and monoclonal antibodies? List examples of disorders that generate each type of antibody in your answer.
 
  What will be an ideal response?


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Reply #1 on: Jun 25, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: Blasts: high N:C ratio; large cell; open chromatin pattern with prominent nucleoli; scanty basophilic cytoplasm
Activated lymphocyte: Low N:C ratio; large, but may be variable sized cell; more clumped chromatin and oval-shaped nucleus; abundant cytoplasm with basophilic rim; kiss other cells producing a scalloped cell shape

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Answer: Polyclonal antibodies are in a group of heterogeneous antibodies with multiple antigenic specificities. Monoclonal antibodies have a single specificity. Multiple myeloma generates monoclonal antibodies; infectious mononucleosis generates polyclonal antibodies.


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