Fig. 2.

Schematic representations and images of the nuclear morphology of human and murine neutrophils during subsequent stages of development. Myelocytes mature into metamyelocytes, banded neutrophils, and finally into mature segmented neutrophils. Neutrophils may also become hypersegmented, with more than 4 nuclear lobes (human) or a cloverleaf shape (mouse). It is unknown whether hypersegmented neutrophils are more mature than segmented neutrophils