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What is the difference between sickle cell and blood cell?
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.
Sickle-shaped red blood cells carry less oxygen than healthy cells. What is another side effect of this disease?
Another side effect of sickle cell disease is the tendency for sickle-shaped red blood cells to get stuck in blood vessels, leading to blockages that can cause pain, organ damage, and even stroke.
The What inherited disease in which red blood cells are sickle shaped instead of disc shaped is called?
Sickle-cell anemia.
Do crescent shaped blood cells give you cancer?
No, crescent-shaped blood cells are a characteristic of sickle cell disease, not cancer. Sickle cells can cause various complications by blocking blood flow and oxygen delivery to tissues, but they do not directly cause cancer.
What are abnormal crescent shaped BLOOD cell?
Abnormal crescent-shaped blood cells are known as sickle cells, which are characteristic of sickle cell disease. This genetic condition causes red blood cells to become rigid and curved, leading to blockages in blood vessels and reduced oxygen delivery to tissues. Sickle cell disease can result in pain, organ damage, and other serious complications.
In a sickle cell decease variation in one gene causes red blood cells to bend or sickle. this means the sickle cell?
Cannot carry normal levels of oxygen to cells :) *NovaNet*
Which anemia is characterized by bone marrow that produces large abnormal red blood cells with a reduced capacity to carry oxygen?
Sickle cell anemia produces sickle-shaped RBCs that reduce the ability to carry as well as exchange oxygen with tissues.
In sickle-cell disease variation in one gene causes red blood cells to bend or sickle. This means sickle cells?
Cannot carry normal levels of oxygen to cells :) *NovaNet*
What is an inherited autosomal recessive disorder of the blood in which an individuals red blood cells are sickle shaped rather than disked - shaped?
Sickle-cell anemia
What is the compared shape of a red blood cell to that of a sickle cell?
The red blood cells have a sickle shape, hence the name. They receive this shape from a protein in normal blood cells that is mutated. They carry less blood and block veins and capillaries easily.
What is a inherited autosomal recessive disorder of the blood in which an individual's red blood cells are sickle-shaped rather than disk-shaped?
C. Sickle-cell anemia
What genetic disorders results in abnormally shaped blood cells?
Spherocytosis
