There is a condition called anemia which causes a reduction or malfunction of hemoglobin which is the oxygen carrying molecule within a red blood cell. There can be several causes of anemia such as iron-deficiency to a genetically based sickle cell anemia. Any kind of anemia will act to reduce oxygen transport in the blood.
Also certain gases like carbon monoxide can bind more tightly to hemoglobin than oxygen does and will crowd out oxygen binding sites. That is why carbon monoxide poisoning is deadly. Your lungs may be working but the oxygen that you breathe in isn't getting taken up and delivered to your cells. Without oxygen, they will die and then so will you.
blood cells do not carry food, blood cells carry oxygen.
Red blood cells carry oxygen to all the cells of the body.
To carry oxygen
red blood cells
Red blood cells carry oxygen around the body. They contain hemoglobin, a protein that binds to oxygen in the lungs and releases it to tissues throughout the body.
blood cells do not carry food, blood cells carry oxygen.
White blood cells fight germs and red blood cells carry oxygen.
Red blood cells carry primarily oxygen
Red blood cells carry oxygen around the body and to the cells.
Your red blood cells carry oxygen.
Cannot carry normal levels of oxygen to cells :) *NovaNet*
Red blood cells carry oxygen to all the cells of the body.
Red blood cells contain hemoglobin. These cells are also known as erythrocytes.
The scientific name for the blood cells that carry oxygen to the body's cells is erythrocytes.
blood carry oxygen to cells
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Oxygen