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CFU-E
Progenitor cell to a red blood cell / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term CFU-E (Colony Forming Unit-Erythroid[1]) denotes a hematopoietic stem cell in the bone marrow which eventually matures into a red blood cell (also called an erythroid cell). It arises from CFU-GEMM (via BFU-E,[2] which stands for "erythroid burst-forming units"[3]) and gives rise to proerythroblasts.
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