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captainjonesify

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Why do you think the leukemias are sorted into lymphocytic and myelocytic categories?
 
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Explain functional immunoincompetence.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jun 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

There are only two progenitor cells that eventually produce all white cell types: a myeloid stem cell and a lymphoid stem cell. Mutations resulting in leukemia occur within the genes that drive the differentiation or maturation of these two cell lines.

Answer to Question 2

Functional immunoincompetence results from a proliferation of immature or defective cells (incompetent cells) that are not capable of carrying out their normal function. Often, a proliferation of immunoincompetent cells is accompanied by a decreased number of normal, competent cells. The decreased number of normal cells results when the over-proliferation of one cell type outcompetes normal cells for resources (space and nutrients) in the bone marrow.


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