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What organ produces red blood cells in the fetus but destroys them after you are born?
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What organ helps make blood cells?
The skeletal system is what is responsible for calcium and phosphorous storage and hematopoiesis. Hematopoiesis is the production of blood cells.
Do mother and baby share blood?
No. The placenta produces and cleanses the blood for the fetus.
Does your liver produce red blood cells in case of adults?
In case of the fetus, liver produces red blood cells. Red blood cells are produced by flat bones in case of adults. Given a challenge to produce the extra red blood cells, the liver may start producing red blood cells in adults also, as a last resort.
Were does red blood cells produce while in the fetus?
In the liver.
Do blood cells diffuse from the mother to the fetus?
Dont discuss fetus one direction its a very sensitive topic
Is there a blood test to determine sex in fetus?
You can't test the mother's blood to determine the sex of the fetus, and blood testing wouldn't terribly effective in determining sex even if you're testing the blood of the fetus because most red cells, which make up the majority of cells in blood, have no nuclei. Amniocentesis is, however, extremely effective for this purpose.
What is hemolytic fetalis?
A hemolytic disease of the newborn that is characterized by an increase in circulating red blood cells and by jaundice and that occurs when the system of an Rh-negative mother produces antibodies to an antigen in the blood of an Rh-positive fetus which cross the placenta and destroy fetal red blood cells, called also hemolytic disease of the newborn.
What is the structure that connects the circulation of the fetus and the mother but blocks the passage of blood cells?
The placenta
With a Rh plus mother and a Rh- fetus will either develop antibodies against Rh antigens?
no when Rh negative blood from the fetus interacts with Rh+ blood of the mother there will be no antibodies produced due to absence of antigen on the Rh- blood cells and when Rh positive is mixed with Rh negative blood of fetus no response is produced due to the fact that the fetus has an underdeveloped immune system
What system of the body produces blood?
Bone marrow in an adult, bone marrow and spleen in an infant, spleen and liver in a fetus.
Describe how oxygen gets from the air to the cells of the foetus?
Oxygen gets from the air to the cells of the fetus through the umbilical cord. The oxygen circulates in the mothers red blood cells.
What is the fungion the liver in a living pig?
When the pig is a fetus in its mother uterus the liver contributes to the production of blood cells.
