Sentences with phrase «make normal red blood cells»

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

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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.

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.

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.