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Nurse cell: feeder of RBCs

Nurse cell: feeder of RBCs
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Author: Kanwaljeet Singh; Venkat Somasundarum; Ankur Ahuja; Manisha Singh; Tathagat Chatterjee
Category: Red Cell: Disorders of Iron Metabolism and Heme Synthesis
Published Date: 11/16/2020

MGG stained bone marrow aspirate showing a macrophage surrounded by erythroblasts.This macrophage with surrounding erythroblasts is known as ''Nurse cell'' which supply iron & nutrition to these cells for formation of RBCs.