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- What is the purpose of AST/ALT blood test ?
- What causes anemia?
- Blood taken from an adult male patient indicates the following: Erythrocyte count: 4.5, Leukocyte count: 10,000, Platelets: 250,000, and Hemoglobin: 13g What can you deduce about the patient's condition and why?
- What is the normal white blood cell count in a healthy female adult?
- What is the difference between monocytes, neutrophils, eosinophils, lymphocytes, and basophils?
- Which type of blood cells are the most abundant in a healthy human body?
- How are the different types of blood types formed? What does the Rh factor do?
- Where in the body are worn-out and damaged red blood cells destroyed?
- The soft tissue inside some of the bones is called what?
- Do circulating red blood cells have a nucleus?
- In the blood typing procedure what causes agglutination of red blood cells?
- What is strep in the blood?
- How does the body adjust to maintain a stable pH of blood?
- Why doesn't the blood clot in the blood vessels? Blood contains platelet cells which help in clotting of blood when there is any cut on our body. Why doesn't it clot when blood is present inside the blood vessel in a normal healthy body?
- What is the function and importance of buffers in the blood?
- How does blood get oxygenated in the heart? The right atrium receives deoxygenated blood, the left atrium receives oxygenated. How does the blood receive the oxygen?
- What does a high protein count mean in blood work?
- How does oxygen pass from alveoli into blood? Is this process passive, like osmosis, or is the membrane active? That is, does it resemble cell membranes, where the integrated membrane proteins are actively transporting chemicals?
- Is diabetes detected in blood tests or urine tests? Would it show up on blood tests or is there any way it would go unnoticed?
- In the lungs, is carbon dioxide more concentrated in the alveoli or in the blood?
- How long do drugs stay in your blood stream?
- What does low protein in blood mean?
- How do you lower high levels of CO2 in your blood?
- Do the veins of the systemic circuit carry oxygenated or deoxygenated blood? Do the veins of the pulmonary circuit carry oxygenated or deoxygenated blood?
- What causes blood in the stool?
- Does cancer always show up in blood tests?
- What does it mean when you have low blood platelets?
- What is blood glucose?
- What percentage of the blood is red blood cells?
- How is oxygen carried in the blood?
- What elements make up the chemical compound of blood?
- What does blood type "A+" mean?
- Does alcohol lower or raise blood sugar levels?
- Which type of blood cell is the most abundant in the human body? Lymphocytes, basophils, erythrocytes, neutrophils, or platelets?
- What is the Latin word for blood?
- How do you change genotypes, like AO and BO to phenotypes?
- How is blood pressure is measured?
- How can blood cancer be cured?
- How can blood clots kill you?
- How can blood pressure increase?
- How can blood viscosity be reduced?
- How do blood sinuses differ from veins?
- How do you calculate blood volume?
- How does blood change colors?
- How does blood change during pregnancy?
- How does blood differ from lymph?
- How does blood plasma differ from tissue fluid?
- How does blood relate to the respiratory system?
- How does donating blood affect your body?
- How does the cold affect blood pressure?
- What is the normal percentage of oxygen in the blood?
- How much plasma is in the blood?
- How much protein is normally found in the blood?
- How can you increase hemoglobin in the blood?
- How can you increase oxygen in the blood?
- How can you lower potassium in the blood?
- How can you lower sugar in the blood?
- How can you reduce triglycerides in the blood?
- What are some examples of bloodborne pathogens?
- What are platelets in the blood?
- What is in the blood plasma?
- Why is cholesterol in the blood?
- Why is glucose in the blood?
- Why is iron in the blood?
- Why is plasma in the blood important?
- Is hemoglobin made up of the protein heme and the red pigment globin?
- What types of blood groups are important in blood transfusion?
- How are blood clots removed?
- How do blood clots affect the heart?
- Do all blood cells have a nucleus?
- Do white blood cells have DNA?
- If white blood cells show infection, what do red blood cells do? Are there any other type of blood cells?
- What are the differences between red and white blood cells?
- Does prednisone cause high or low white blood counts?
- What are more important, red blood cells or white blood cells? Why?
- What is pus? Is it just white blood cells?
- Are white blood cells bad or good?
- How are white blood cells created?
- How does the ability of a white blood cell to change its shape affect its function?How are the organelles of a single cell like organs of a multicellular organism?
- What is the name of the disease were a person's red and white blood cells attack each other?
- What is role of white blood cells in the blood?
- Are white blood cells specialized cells?
- What stops the white blood cells from attacking our own body cells? What is the role of the lymphatic system in the maturation of all the different types of white blood cells?
- Do white blood cells help in digestion?
- What does it mean if your white blood cells are small in size?
- How does the structure of RBC, WBC, and platelets relate to the function of these cells?
- Do antibiotics reduce lymphocytes (white blood cells)?
- If you have cancer, which blood cell count comes back elevated, white or red?
- What are the 5 types of white blood cells?
- Does saliva contain white blood cells?
- What are the 2 major organelles in blood? Is it myoglobin and something else?
- Do high or low White Blood cell counts cause cancer?
- How many types of blood cells are there?
- Do White Blood Cells kill cancer cells?
- How do white blood cells prevent, not fight, disease?
- Are red blood cells called erythrocytes? What are white blood cells called?
- How long does it take for blood to multiply? I have low blood levels and right now I am taking iron pills 4 times a day. How quickly will my blood cells multiply? How much do blood cells make?
- How do white blood cells fight pathogens?
- I have high blood pressure and a high white blood cell count what does this mean?
- What are the symptoms of leukemia?
- Can you have high white blood cell count and not have a UTI?
- What is the color and shape of white blood cells?
- Is a T cell and a white blood cell the same thing?
- How do white blood cells know what to kill? How do white blood cells know to kill bacteria cells and not human cells. How do they differentiate between the two?
- What are the 2 main functions of White Blood Cells?
- Uncontrolled shivering, slow slurred speech, memory loss, irrational behavior, lack of movement, and sleepiness are symptoms of what dangerous condition?
- What is 0+ blood type?
- My blood type is B+ and my mothers blood type is O-, what would my fathers be?
- What are the blood types available for human beings?
- What exactly do the positive and negative mean after the blood types of A, B, AB or O?
- I know about the blood types, which ones are which, and I know how to fill out a Punnett Square, but how do you turn Ao and Bo and such from a genotype to a phenotype?
- What's the rarest blood type? Is it AB negative?
- Can a blood transfusion change your blood type?
- What is HH blood type?
- Jessica's mother has the blood type AB and her father has the blood type O. Which blood type could Jessica have?
- My friend claims he has a blood type of "Z 16" and after telling me the story of how he got it, it seems quite valid. Is there such a thing as a Blood Type Z?
- Can parents both with O blood type have a child with A+ blood type?
- My newborn child is AB+ and my husband's blood type is O. My blood type is A+. Is this possible?
- In my science class, my instructor said you can tell what your blood type is just by looking at your blood. What characteristics will the blood have to tell you what your blood type is for each type?
- Can a father with AB- blood type and a mother with an O- blood type have a child with O- type?
- My Dad was blood type O Rh+ and my mom is blood type B. Is there a way I can tell what I am or might be without getting my blood tested?
- Ms. Pratt is claiming that Mr. X is the father of her child. Ms. Pratt is O-. Her baby boy is A+. Mr. X is blood type B+. Could he be the father of her child? If not, what blood type would he be expected to be?
- If parents are A and B, what are the possible genotypes of the parents? What are all the possible blood types of children? What if the parents are AB and A?
- What determines your blood type? My mother's blood is AB - and my father's blood was O +, I have A +, is that possible? Both my kids are A+ and their father is O -. Is that possible?
- What is the difference between type 0+ and type O- blood cells? Are both universal donors? Why?
- Is blood type O negative the inferior blood type?
- My blood type is O+. Is this the type that is hard to find?
- What does AB positive blood type mean?
- What type of blood would be more useful, AB blood, which is rare, or O blood, which is the universal donor? In other words, what are blood banks in greater need of?
- What happens if an A type person receives B blood? What happens if an AB type person receives B blood? What happens if a B type person receives O blood? What happens if a B type person receives AB blood?
- What does a B+ blood type mean?
- If a mom who has type A blood & a dad who has type O blood have a child with type B blood, what has happened?
- What does "CMV" mean on my blood donor card?
- If my blood type is O positive, what kind of blood types did my parents have?
- Why do humans have different blood types? And why is O a generic blood?
- Who can a person with AB or A or B blood type donate blood to? Can you explain the positive and negative parts also?
- How can type AB blood receive from O, because O has A and B antibodies? Wouldn't the O's A and B antibodies attack the A and B antigens in the AB recipient blood?
- What does a negative blood type mean?
- Can a donor with type AB blood give can give blood to someone else with a different blood type?
- Is O Negative a rare blood type?
- My doctor told me I have blood-type h-h. What does this mean?
- I have blood type Op. What does this mean?
- My fiance and I are planning to get married two years from now. She has an O- blood type and I have a B+ blood type. Can any complications arise if we conceive a child as a result of our blood types? If so, what are they and is there a solution?
- Why can a type O person donate blood to all other blood types but can only receive type O blood?
- Why is blood typing important in blood transfusions?
- What's so special about AB+ blood type? I was donating blood my first time and the lady wanted me to do something called an "Alex Machine". What's an Alex Machine?
- If blood agglutinates with anti-A and anti-Rh-D, what is the blood type? How did you figure this out?
- Why is blood type important for organ donations? Whenever I see a documentary on organ transplant, there is absolutely no blood on the organ. So if they clean the organ why does the blood type matter?
- In reference to the blood vessels, what word means hardened?
- Do WBCs contain DNA?
- What is the collective term for cellular components of blood?
- Serum is composed of plasma minus what?
- What is the difference between the pulmonary artery and veins?
- Which molecule is involved in transport of oxygen?
- What is Atherosclerosis?
- Why is hemoglobin called the Robin Hood of the body?
- How is oxygenated blood different from deoxygenated blood?
- Question #c249a
- Heart is a pumping device for blood. Is there a separate blood supply for heart wall?
- What is the difference between fibrinogen (fibrin) and platelets?