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Title: The nurse knows that a drug in a category identified as a colony-stimulating factor (CSF) helps ...
Post by: stu.nehagupta on Feb 12, 2018
The nurse knows that a drug in a category identified as a colony-stimulating factor (CSF) helps
 
  A)
  cells engulf and digest microbes that want to attach to cell membranes and destroy normal cell function.
  B)
  produce cells that will be the first responder cells to protect against cancer formation.
  C)
  stimulate the person's immune system so that he or she can kill his or her own cancer cells.
  D)
  stimulate bone marrow to produce large numbers of mature cells such as platelets and erythrocytes.


Title: The nurse knows that a drug in a category identified as a colony-stimulating factor (CSF) helps ...
Post by: tiinabrown49 on Feb 12, 2018
Ans:
D

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CSFs participate in hematopoiesis by stimulating bone marrow pluripotent stem and progenitor or precursor cells to produce large numbers of mature platelets, erythrocytes, lymphocytes, neutrophils, and monocytes.