Colour-enhanced image of platelets (green) and red blood cells. Platelets are necessary for the blood clotting process and are generated from large cells called megakaryocytes. Neither platelets nor ...

There are four components - or parts - of the blood: red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma and platelets. Blood carries things you need, like oxygen and glucose, and waste products ...

C. 5.3.1.9) (glucosephosphate isomerase, or GPI) that was evident in proband leukocytes as well as erythrocytes. 2,3 Further studies of three similar cases in an unrelated family constitute the ...