Description:
The maturation of hematopoietic cells in human bone marrow is essential to the understanding of the process of hematopoiesis for physicians, pathologists, medical students, laboratory technologists, teachers and researchers. Yet to date, no single chart or reference guide exists that depicts all of the stages as shown in photographed human blood cells. Scientists from the University of Virginia led by Charles E. Hess, M.D., have created and assembled an extensive image database of unique benign and malignant diseases and disorders within human blood and bone marrow. From this comprehensive database (www.microscopichematology.com), these scientists have assembled a useful resource that is the first of its kind: a chart depicting human bone marrow cells as viewed under the microscope. Each cell is resized to scale, photographed from U.Va.-prepared slides which are hand stained with high-quality noncommercial Wright Giemsa stains. The cell images are then arranged in an exceptionally easy-to-follow flow chart. The chart also depicts high resolution photographs of a secondary lymph follicle.
John J. Densmore, M.D, Ph.D., an associate professor of medicine at the University of Virginia, describes the invention as "the most useful blood development chart that I have ever seen. It is helpful to have a chart with actual photographed cells instead of cartoons, and this is the only one that I have seen of its kind."
The University of Virginia Patent Foundation is currently looking for a publisher that would be interested in helping to make these charts available to the large audience that we believe would benefit from this one-of-a-kind reference.
