Unit Objectives - 1
Reading assignment:
Pages 63 - 80
Unit objectives:
1. Define hematopoiesis.
2. Discuss the formation of blood cells from embryo to fetus to adult and
correlate
with age.
3. Relate anatomy of hematopoietic organs to normal and abnormal hematopoiesis.
4. Explain stem cell theory of hematopoiesis.
5. Relate hematopoietic growth
factors to
apoptosis.