centroblast
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editcentroblast (plural centroblasts)
- (anatomy) An activated B cell that is enlarged with multiple eccentric nucleoli and proliferating in the germinal center of a secondary lymphoid follicle, after stimulation by follicular dendritic cell cytokines and helper T cells.
- 1975, K Lennert, “Morphology and classification of malignant lymphomas and so-called reticuloses”, in Malignant Lymphomas of the Nervous System:
- Therefore we proposed the term centroblast instead of germinoblast and the term centrocyte instead of germinocyte.