Bone Marrow Stem Cells: Biology School Project

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Bone marrow stem cells play a crucial role in the renewal of blood cells, differentiating into various types such as red blood cells, white blood cells, and monocytes. This differentiation process is influenced by cues in the local cellular environment, primarily through growth factors that trigger changes in gene expression. These changes lead to alterations in the cytoskeleton, which affects the cell's morphology. For instance, radial glia cells undergo significant structural changes to become star-shaped astrocytes. The specific amounts of each cell type produced are regulated by these differentiation signals and the surrounding microenvironment.
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Hello...
For my biology school project, I was searching throw internet about Stem Cells in the bone marrow, that are responsible for the renewal of blood cell.
I found that the bone marrow stem cells transform into red blood cells, white blood cells, monocytes...
My question is how can this cells be transformed into different cells? And what takes place inside the cell? Also who it would produce a specific amount of each cell?
 
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Differentiation occurs as a result of cues in the local cellular environment, typically from molecules called "growth factors". It often results in a change in gene expression and cytoskeleton signals to change the morphology of the cell (like radial glia are long spindly cells that eventually differentiate into star-shaped astrocytes; this requires a lot of changes in cytoskeletal structure.)
 
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