Biomedical Engineering Reference
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EXAMPLE PROBLEM 6.1
How can the production of red blood cells be modeled?
Solution
Erythropoiesis replaces decaying mature red blood cells. About 200 billion of these cells need
to be produced daily in a human adult. Many of the changes that a cell undergoes during
the process of erythropoiesis are well known (Figure 6.14). The cell size, the rates of RNA and
FIGURE 6.14
The erythroid maturation sequence.
From [4].
