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Adam Reisman

Why I cannot find dendritic cells in blood smear?

According to many sources including Wikipedia, there are haematopoietic stem cell derived dendritic cells in the blood.

haematopoietic cell lines

  • figure 1 - haematopoietic cell lines - ref

Despite of this, when I examine a blood smear, I cannot find dendritic cells and I did not find any blood smear example on the internet, which depicts dendritic cells.

blood smear

  • figure 2 - blood smear cell lines - ref

Why is that?