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A megakaryoblast is a precursor cell to a promegakaryocyte, which in turn becomes a megakaryocyte. It is the beginning of the thrombocytic series.
It derives from an CFU-Me colony unit of pluripotential hemopoietic stem cells.
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Blood - Blood plasma |
| Pluripotential hemopoietic stem cells | Red blood cells (Reticulocyte, Normoblast) | White blood cells |
| Lymphoid |
| T cells (Cytotoxic, Helper, Regulatory T cells, γδ T cells, Natural Killer T cells) | B cells (Plasma cells & Memory B cells) | Natural killer cells |
| Myeloid |
| Granulocytes (Neutrophil, Eosinophil, Basophil) | Mast cell precursors | Monocytes (Histiocyte, Macrophages, Dendritic cells, Langerhans cells, Microglia, Kupffer cells, Osteoclasts) | Megakaryoblast | Megakaryocyte | Platelets |
