Function: blood cell production.
Location: bone marrow
Function: support for the developing blood cells, production of reticular fibers, secretion of several Colony-Stimulating Factors.
Composition: ground substance, reticular fibers, reticular (adventitial) cells.
Function: pluripotential stem cell that give rise to all of the blood cell lines found in the bone marrow.
Function: development of neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils.
Function: leave the marrow and travel to the thymus
where they become T lymphocytes.