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Only a few minutes, that is why stroke causes serious damage.

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Death of brain cells due to lack of oxygen?

Brain cells can only survive for 3 minutes without a supply of oxygen.


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How do blood vessels help cancer cells to multiply?

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What do the blood cells supply?

Oxygen to the heart.


Could you live without white blood cells?

White blood cells are responsible for fighting infections and foreign materials in the body. Without them, it would only be a matter of time before you got sick; it's the infection that would kill you. You could, theoretically, live within a pure environment.


Why does the skeleton produce blood cells?

because if you do not have red blood cells you can not survive because red blood cellsprotect you from diseaes


Why is it important to have blood cells?

Only if they multiply , do we survive.


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