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Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to the body's cells. This is their main purpose. When the red blood cells burst, they lose the oxygen they were carrying, causing oxygen levels to fall.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 9y agoThe bursting of red blood cells is called hemolysis. After the cells burst, they will eventually just become tissue.
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∙ 14y agoover oxygenation - too much oxygen intake for the blood cells to handle
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∙ 14y agobecause your red and white blood cells only have a membrane instead of a cell wall. so when you put them in a non PH balanced environment they burst.
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∙ 11y agohypertonic - no they just appear to be shrivelled, but the cell does not actually explode
hypotonic- depending on how much water is diffusing in, it has the potential to explode.
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∙ 13y agoit is as a result of the cell shrinking due to absence of water.
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∙ 13y agodi ko alam pasensya na :)
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What do the spores do after they burst from red blood cells?
Infect other blood cells
Why not inject distilled water into arm?
This will increase the water potential of the blood, and cause your blood cells to burst due to osmosis.
Is staining what you call it if you diluted a blood sample with distilled water and the red blood cells burst?
You can certainly expect the blood cells to stain the water as their cell membranes rupture from being in a hypotonic solution. The term that describes this is "To lyse". Blood cells lyse in distilled water.
What ruptures red blood cells and bursts vessels?
It's called cytolysis when cells burst open. Hemolysis is a type of cytolysis, referring to the bursting of red blood cells.Read more: What_is_the_term_for_when_a_cell_ruptures_or_bursts
What Red blood cells that are bathed in blood neither shrink nor swell and burst If the concentration of blood is 0.5 M what could be the concentration of cytoplasm of RBCs?
The concentration of cytoplasm of RBCs could be 0.5 M.
What do the spores do after they burst from red blood cells?
Infect other blood cells
Could you die if your blood cells burst?
If the all burst ... yes. But if just a few burst ... no, it happens all the time.
Why would red blood cells burst if you placed them in pure water?
because red blood cells are blood and if they can disolve there for they will burt cause the blood has acid in it.
How does malaria affect the victims?
your blood cells burst and make you very sick
What happens to red blood cells when they are placed in distilled water?
because of osmosis it would get fatter and fatter with water till it burst. aww.
What does lysed mean in respect of blood in urine trace-lysed?
Lysis is destruction or dissolution of cells. Lysed blood would be not whole cells, cells that have burst, so trace-lysed is a very small amount of destroyed blood cells.
Why not inject distilled water into arm?
This will increase the water potential of the blood, and cause your blood cells to burst due to osmosis.
Why is saline drip better than water for blood?
Water will just diffuse inside the blood cells because there is a higher concentration of blood outside the cell now. This will cause hemolysis. Basically, the blood cells will burst open. However, saline will not diffuse through the blood cells.
A red blood cell placed in distilled water will swell and burst due to the diffusion of what?
3. water from the blood cell into its environment
Is staining what you call it if you diluted a blood sample with distilled water and the red blood cells burst?
You can certainly expect the blood cells to stain the water as their cell membranes rupture from being in a hypotonic solution. The term that describes this is "To lyse". Blood cells lyse in distilled water.
How are blood cells damaged?
well its simple. t36 granulocytes are damaged by the invasion of the HIV virus, which makes use of this host's apparatus to reproduce asexually, and after all this has been done then the infected cell will burst. red blood cells are damaged by Protoctista (plasmodium) where by they are infected and eventually burst
What is Nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia?
Anemia caused by variably shaped red blood cells that burst, or hemolyze, easily.
