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What kind of cells keep the body from working properly?
Sickle Cells?
How could the structure of the sickle cells be related to pain in body tissues?
The sickle cells cause the pain in body tissue and the pain could also be caused by lack of oxygen.
What can't sickle shaped cells carry enough for the body?
oxygen
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.
How does Sickle cell anemia affect the body?
it blocks other blood cells
Why are sickle cells sickle?
because they can
You have sickle cell anemia what will folic acid do for your sickle cell anemia?
Folic acid helps the body make red blood cells and can improve the symptoms of anemia by supporting the production of healthy red blood cells. However, folic acid supplements will not directly affect the underlying cause of sickle cell anemia, which is a genetic disorder affecting hemoglobin.
Do sickle cells have a nucleus?
"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.
What parts of the body are affected by sickle cell disease?
Sickle Cell disease is a genetic desease that often effect humans with and African background. It is a mutation that makes the read blood cells in our body to look different an have a abnormal form. These blood cells are shown to have a good effect on protecting the human body against malaria and other types of diseases and that's why the mutation is still common in Africa but the disease is recessive so both parents have to have the disease to pass it on to there child. But the negative effects that are caused by this disease is that the spleen that are located on the top of the left kidney breaks down these unnormal blood cells and that couses a blood shortage in the body. Those unnormal blood cells also are lack oxygen. These two things are common and effects the organs and the whole system in our body.
What are Sickle cells like?
Sickle cells are also less flexible and stickier than normal red blood cells
What is sic-o-cells?
Sickle cells?
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*
