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If your talking about blood platelets, they rush to an area of you body that is injured to begin the clotting process.
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What is the tiny cell fragments in blood?
White blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets.
Can you name all the organelles in platelets?
Platelets contain many mitochondria to power their actions (mainly blood clotting) and granules that contain chemicals that the platelets use for their actions. They don't have much else.
What percentage of blood is platelets?
Leukocyte in fraction i.e. 0/13% platelets are 4.8% of total blood cells
How platelets survive without nucleus?
Basically, there's no use for nucleus in a platelet cell, and so there isn't one. Here's a more thorough explanation: Platelets are cells that don't go through mitosis as fully specialized cells, thus having a nucleus, with the genetic information for duplication, would be unnecessary, and in nature unnecessary things are often gotten rid of. Another reason is the fact that platelets don't synthesize proteins, they contain substances that participate in the clogging of blood, but they don't produce these substances. When more is needed, more platelets are produced in the bone-marrow.
What is another name for thrombocyte?
platelets
Why are platelets important when you have a cut?
Platelets help heal your wound, the scabs that form are the platelets
What are microcytic platelets?
platelets that are smaller in size than your average platelets... Can be associated with aplastic anemia.
What cellular component in the blood is crucial in blood clotting?
platelets.
What is the tiny cell fragments in blood?
White blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets.
What is the count of platelets in hemophilia patient?
because there is only the defects in function of platelets in hemophilia and not reduction in number of platelets!
What blood components is most abundant in humans?
platelets platelets
What is the german word for platelets?
Platelets translates as Blutplättchen or Plättchen
What do platelets lack?
Platelets, A fragment of a cell, lacks a nucleus
What is a sentence with the word platelets?
The platelets count of the sick person was very low. It means the count of protective cells in the body.
Why does an animal have platelets?
An animal has platelets because when they get a wound the platelets rush to the area and they release fibres that stop the blood from escaping the body.
How many platelets can be safely removed?
it depends on how many platelets you have in your body.
Do platelets dissolve a forming clot?
Platelets get together and form a clot.
