The erythroid component consists predominantly or exclusively of proerythroblasts and early basophilic erythroblasts.
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Precursors of red cells, the proerythroblasts and basophilic erythroblasts also express erythropoietin receptor and are therefore affected by it.
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Most of the expression is in the proerythroblast ( P ) stage, and a minor amount in the basophilic erythroblast ( B ) stage.
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In this form of AML, levels of erythroblasts can reach up to 94.8 % of all nucleated cells in the bone marrow, and the immature forms of the erythroblasts, the proerythroblasts and basophilic erythroblasts, are more commonly found.
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Early erythroid progenitors are found at a quite low frequency relative to later stages of erythroid differentiation, such as the pro-erythroblast and the basophilic erythroblast stages which can be detected by flowcytometry directly ex-vivo ( Socolovsky et al . 2001 PMID 11719363 ).