primitive red blood cell
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0002355
A large nucleated basophilic erythrocyte found in mammalian embryos. This cell type arises from the blood islands of yolk sacs and expresses different types of hemoglobins (beta-H1, gamma-1 and zeta) than adult erythrocytes. Considered a type of erythroblast as this cell type can enucleate in circulation. [ http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MOH.0b013e3282f97ae1 GOC:tfm http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11495698 ]
Synonyms: primitive erythrocyte, primitive erythroid cell, primitive erythroblast
Term info
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1980-3228
2010-09-22T09:27:05Z
Term relations
- primitive erythroid lineage cell and part of some embryo and has part some hemoglobin subunit zeta and has part some hemoglobin subunit beta-1 and bearer of some increased size