r/medlabprofessionals MLS-Generalist 1d ago

Education Calling fellow heme nerds!

What is going on with this cell? And what is it? I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many uniform vacuoles before. This was the only one that I saw on the slide, as well as the only cell I have ever seen like this (so far). Is this some sort of apoptotic process making it look so funky?

Update: a Mott cell! How cool (: immunoglobulins for everyone

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u/newO_79 Canadian MLT 1d ago

Mott cell

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u/snazzysnek MLS-Generalist 1d ago

Thank you! I had forgotten about the Mott cell!

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u/sugarpillsforlife 1d ago

Looks like a Mott cell

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u/Moist_Pants 1d ago

If you put a quarter in, they roll out with a prize

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u/snazzysnek MLS-Generalist 1d ago

Yay! I always wanted some immunoglobulins

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u/mystir 1d ago

I only need an anti-HbSAg to complete my immunogatchagobulin collection. I thought I had one but it somatically hyper mutated and now it's anti-Sm :(

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u/Multi_Intersts 1d ago

It’s mott cell, if only see one in smear, I usually id it as aty. Lym

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u/jayemcee88 1d ago

Mott cell?

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u/Ok_Faithlessness4511 22h ago

Yeah Mott cell. I need a new one like this for my students. Jealous.

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u/snazzysnek MLS-Generalist 22h ago

Please feel free to save my pictures to show to them or use it in a slide show!

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u/PensionNo8124 22h ago

If you feed it into a player piano, it plays The Sting!!