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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prostaglandins Other Lipid Mediat. 2011 Jun 21;96(1-4):3–9. doi: 10.1016/j.prostaglandins.2011.06.004

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Blood cell development is a hierarchical process with self-renewal and maturational divisions occurring as a continuum under the direction of single or multiple growth factors. Shown is a simplistic representation incorporating current understandings of the hematopoietic process. Specific progenitor cells include the common lymphoid progenitor (CLP), common myeloid progenitor (CMP), granulocyte-monocyte progenitor (GMP), megakaryocyte-erythrocyte progenitor (MEP), the megakaryocyte (CFU-Meg) and erythroid (BFU-E) progenitors and the common macrophage and dendritic cell progenitor (MDP).