How Does Myelodysplastic Syndrome Occur in the Bone Marrow?
The soft inner portion of our bones (skull, shoulder blades, ribs, pelvis and backbones) is called bone marrow and it consists mainly of cells that form blood, fat cells and tissues that helps the blood-forming cells to grow. Stem cells found in the bone marrow are the substances that make new blood cells. Some of these continue to function as stem cells with the rest going on to form either red blood cells, white blood cells or platelets. The red blood cells in out bodies carry hemoglobin a substance that channels oxygen from the lungs to our body tissues, platelets are responsible for helping the body seal wounds in blood vessels when we bruise or cut ourselves and are not strictly speaking a blood cell but rather sections of bone marrow cells called megakayocytes. White blood cells or leukocytes help to defend the body against infective processes and are divided into lymphocytes and granulocytes. White blood cells, also known as leukocytes, are important in defending the body agains
