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Myeloid Tissue

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bone marrow

 or myeloid tissue

Soft, gelatinous tissue that fills bone cavities. Red bone marrow contains stem cells, progenitor cells, percursor cells, and functional blood cells (see reticuloendothelial system). Lymphocytes mature in the lymphoid organs (see lymphoid tissue). All other blood-cell formation occurs in red marrow, which also takes part in destruction of old erythrocytes (red blood cells). Yellow bone marrow mainly stores fats. Because the leukocytes (white blood cells) produced in bone marrow are involved in immune defenses, marrow transplants can treat some types of immunodeficiency. Radiation and some anticancer drugs can damage marrow and impair immunity. Bone-marrow examination helps diagnose diseases related to blood and blood-forming organs.

myeloid tissue [′mī·ə‚lȯid ‚tish·ü]
(histology)
Red bone marrow attached to argyrophile fibers which form wide meshes containing scattered fat cells, erythroblasts, myelocytes, and mature myeloid elements.
Myeloid Tissue 

hematopoietic tissue that forms the red bone marrow in vertebrate animals and man.
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Red bone marrow consists of myeloid tissue, red blood cells, platelets and white blood cells.
Bone Marrow by Brenda Williams / Food/cooking/nutrition community
This view is supported by Selye and Stone's (8) experimental transformation of adrenal into myeloid tissue by using extracts of corticotropin and testosterone.
Myelolipoma associated with adrenal ganglioneuroma by Merchant, Shakil H.; Herman, Christopher M.; Amin, Mitual B.; Ro, Jae Y.; Troncoso, Patricia / Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
 
 
 
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