Sickle cells are also less flexible and stickier than normal red blood cells
"Sickle cells" refers to an abnormal shape (rather like a sickle) of red blood cells. Red blood cells in humans do not have a nucleus.
sickle cell anemia
Sickle cells are a sickle or crescent shape that can only carry a fractional amount of oxygen and nutrients. Normal cells are shaped like doughnuts.
because they can
Sickle cells. Sickle cell anemia is the disease characterized by sickle-shaped blood cells.
Sickle cells?
Cannot carry normal levels of oxygen to cells :) *NovaNet*
yes - no its not because a sickle cell is basically a diseased cell that is shapped like a sickle.. a disease in bloodcell - it cannot get as much oxygen as healthy blood cells
ITS GOOD 4 UR SICKLE CELL! When you have sickle cell, your body looses cells. Folic acid helps to create new cells.
Sickle cell anemia is a disease passed down through families in which red blood cells form an abnormal crescent shape. It is also called sickle cell anemia.
Normally, the 6th position of the beta chain of hemoglobin is a Glutamic acid, encoded on the DNA as GAG. The sickle cell mutation has the sequence GTG, resulting in a Valine in the 6th position instead.
· Not like the normal red blood cells, which can live for 120 days, sickle-shaped cells live only 10 to 20 days· About 1 out of every 500 African-American babies born in the United States has sickle cell anemia· Sickle cell disease, red blood cells start out normal, but if they are stressed they become curved, hard, and sticky