Front | The tissue where all the cellular elements of the blood—red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets—are initially generated from hematopoietic stem cells. This tissue is also the site of further B-cell development in mammals and the source of stem cells that give rise to Tregcells on migration to the thymus. Thus, transplantation of this tissue can restore all the cellular elements of the blood, including the cells required for adaptive immune responses |
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Back | bone marrow |
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