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Creative Writing: The Red Blood Cell

2023-03-18 22:21:58

I started a journey of bone marrow. Did you see the flexibility of the bone marrow? What? This is truly exciting. I formed it from the blood cell, it took about 2 days. The body produces about 2 million red blood cells per second. So, I have plenty to go. I finally passed through vein capillaries and my partner's plasma. As we have plenty to go, we occupy most rooms, but the people representing me are not that big. Eventually I went to the vena cava I liked the capillaries of the arterial veins.

Sickle cell anemia and red blood cell physiology function Introduction Sickle cell anemia is a disease in which the body forms crescent red blood cells. Normal erythrocytes are discotic. They are easily moved through the blood vessels and contain iron - rich proteins called hemoglobin. This protein carries oxygen from the lungs to other parts of the body. Sickle cell contains abnormal hemoglobin due to mutation of hemoglobin chain. This type of hemoglobin is called sickle hemoglobin or hemoglobin S.

Sickle cell anemia is a blood disorder affecting erythrocytes. Normal red blood cells are round. In people with sickle cell anemia, substances in hemoglobin - erythrocytes - become incomplete, changing the shape of erythrocytes. Defective hemoglobin called hemoglobin S (HgbS) replaces normal hemoglobin called hemoglobin A (HgbA). As time goes on, red blood cells become hard, shaped like crescent shaped satellites and sickles. In the United States, the disease is most common among African Americans (about 1 in 400 African Americans) and Caribbean Hispanics (1 in 1,000 to 1,400 Hispanics). The disease is seen all over the world in the Arab, Greek, Italian, Sardinian, Turkish, Maltese, South Asian breeds.

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of hereditary erythroid diseases. If you suffer from SCD, your hemoglobin will have problems. Hemoglobin is a protein in erythrocytes that carries oxygen into the body. Together with SCD, hemoglobin forms a hard rod in red blood cells. This changes the shape of red blood cells. The cells should be disk shaped, but this turns them into a crescent shape or a sickle shape. Sickle cell is inflexible and does not easily deform. Many of them burst when you pass through your blood vessels. Sickle cell usually lasts only 10 to 20 days and does not last for 90 to 120 days as usual. Your body may not be able to make enough new cells to replace your lost cells. Therefore, you may not have enough red blood cells. This is a condition called anemia, it can make you feel tired