Sentences with phrase «make normal blood cells»

They multiply quickly and interfere with the bone marrow's ability to make normal blood cells, leading to life - threatening infections and bleeding.

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«Under normal circumstances, blood clot contraction plays an important role in preventing bleeding by making a better seal, since the cells become tightly packed as the spaces between them are eliminated,» Weisel said.

The group uses immunoaffinity — the specific chemical affinity between an antibody and an antigen — to make CTCs adhere to the device while normal blood cells flow past.

Bone marrow from the p16 - deficient mice made 3 times as many blood - forming stem cells as bone marrow from the normal mice did.

A form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, follicular lymphoma develops when the body starts making abnormal B - cells, which are white blood cells that in normal conditions fight infections.

In 2008, researchers led by YongKeun Park and Monica Diez - Silva of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that red blood cells vibrated less when they were infected with the malaria parasite, apparently because the infection made the cells stiffer than normal (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.0806100105).

A drug called Repoxygen delivers the EPO gene with some controls, so that when blood oxygen dips below normal, the body makes enough red blood cells to restore normal oxygen.

At the time, Thompson was director of the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and as a medical oncologist with training in immunology, he was studying normal, healthy white blood cells, or lymphocytes, to understand how fast - dividing cells make the decision to divide.

«Lymphocytes are the white blood cells that help make antibodies and are part of the normal infection - fighting machinery,» Dr. Nichols explains.

Both adults and children need folate to make normal red blood cells and prevent anemia.

But in some cases, an acidic diet can make this bacteria highly aggressive and it can literally drill itself inside of a normal cell to get away from the acidity in the blood, as discovered by Robert O. Young, Ph.D..

Vitamin A for example is necessary for a normal heartbeat, vitamin K2 is needed to make flexible yet strong artery walls that resist atherosclerosis, and vitamin E helps red blood cell formation making exercise easier.

And even if you have normal blood sugars you may still be insulin resistant, which means you have to make loads of insulin to get the sugar from your blood into your cells.

The signs that we see in dogs are usually related to decreased numbers of normal cells (such as red blood cells which carry oxygen, white blood cells that fight infection and platelets that help with clotting) which are made in the bone marrow.

First, the packed - cell volume (PCV) is the percentage of whole blood that is made up of cells, with a normal value of around 35 — 55 %, depending on the species and breed.