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if your brain has been starved of oxegen for 12 minutes due to a heart attack what can happen

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About 3 to 4 minutes. When you have held your breath that long, you might start to feel a nagging at your lungs because of it. That is, if you're not used to doing so for a little while.

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2.9 days. my e-mail is hunting.fishing11@Yahoo.com please contact me. i tried it on my sister dosent work so well.

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Deprived of oxygen, cells begin to die in about a minute.

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4-6 minutes 4-6 minutes

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about one (1) minute

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4-6

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3 min.

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Q: When a cell is deprived of oxygen how long does it take before it starts to die?
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Cells anywhere in the body (especially in the brain) will die if deprived of oxygen enriched blood for long.


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In many cells this this process follows mitosis?

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How many layers of cells does oxygen diffuse through before it reaches a red blood cell?

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