An estimation of the number of cells in the human body

By Eva Bianconi, A. Piovesan, Federica Facchin, A. Beraudi, R. Casadei, F. Frabetti, L. Vitale, M. C. Pelleri, S. Tassani, F. Piva and 3 more. Annals of Human Biology, 2013

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Subfields: Immunology, Molecular Biology

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In Immunology

1. Ron Milo
2. Shai Fuchs
3. R. Sender
4. Guido Kroemer
5. R. Kang
6. D. Tang
7. L. Zitvogel

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7. R. Sender
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Citations in the corpus

• Are We Really Vastly Outnumbered? Revisiting the Ratio of Bacterial to Host Cells in Humans. (2016, background): “Most sources cite the number of human cells as 1013 or 1014, and a recent study reported 3.7 3 1013 human cells in a ‘‘reference’’ human (Bianconi et al., 2013).”
• Ferroptosis in infection, inflammation, and immunity (2021, background): “The direct consequence of this process is that >150 billion dead cells are routinely produced every day in the human body (Bianconi et al., 2013).”
• A Single-Cell Atlas of In Vivo Mammalian Chromatin Accessibility. (2018, neutral): “Efforts to produce a human cell atlas are in their infancy, challenged in part by the fact that an adult human (70 kg) consists of a staggering 37 trillion cells (Bianconi et al., 2013).”
• Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body (2016, methodology): “Bianconi et al (Bianconi et al., 2013) accounted most of the cells of this lineage: red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets were counted in the blood and in the bone marrow, but there is a non-negligible fraction of the white blood cells that presented outside of these tissues.”