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    Sickle Cell In this essay I will be talking about sickle cell anemia. Well I was diagnosed with the disease at birth. I have what they call SS, which means I have the full illness. The reason I do is because both of my parents have a trait. This is my story. First of all ever since I was young I've been in and out of the hospital. They say I'm a hard poke because my veins are so small. F.Y.I. I’m not a big fan of needles.(one time they needed three to four people just to hold me down

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    humanity would not be where it is today. Everything influences everything, we just need to look. Dwarves have always been a staple of myth, from the old norse legends to todays fantasy. In old norse legends they were born from a gods primordial blood. But some other stories tell of dwarves rising as maggots from a gods flesh(Dwarf mythology). In these legends Dwarves were extremely

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    very effective agent to fight the cancer cells. But there is still no confirmation about its anti-tumour effects on tumour cell lines. Some results revealed that it exerts cytotoxic and anti-proliferative efficacy that are used to fight cancer cells. This can be done through pore formation or a membrane disruption. Example of this toxic agents are the immune cell and some types of venoms. It creates large gaping holes where molecules vital to a cancer cells survival leak out. Polybia-MP1 has antimicrobial

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    Spleen

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    It function is filter the blood and maintain it in a healthy way. The spleen produces two types of pulp to perform its function, the red and the white pulp (Goodenough & McGuire, 2014). The red pulp filters the damaged blood cells, palates and foreign materials in the blood, so it recycles the blood. On other hand, the white pulp is composed from lymphocytes, macrophages and plasma cells that help clean the blood. These two pulps work interchangeably to make sure the blood is filtered completely from

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    Recipients of blood transfusions are potentially exposed to transmissible biologic agents that are known or suspected to be associated with specific disorders. These agents range from major known threats such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Hepatitis C virus (HCV), and Hepatitis B virus (HBV) to novel or emerging agents of public health concern such as Dengue and Zika viruses or the agents causing babesiosis and malaria. Human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA has been detected in the blood and related

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    crossed. Over the years, gym-goers and professional athletes have started to cross this limit by looking for alternatives for diligence; as a result, they have turned to abusing steroids or blood doping to improve their performance. My research aims to thoroughly explain the differences between anabolic steroids and blood doping. The reason of me choosing this topic is because I myself am a gym-goer, and I devote myself to maintaining my body and health, hence I would like to learn whether taking these

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    that blood transfusion is against the divine law. This prohibition is inspired from the bible passage “Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat” (Genesis 9, 3–4).However, Jehovah’s Witness accept medical and surgical treatments, but they absolutely refuse any type of blood transfusion including whole blood, plasma, platelets, red and white blood cells. Indeed

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    young age, I was diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease which is a blood disorder that causes the red blood cells to act abnormally. So far, I have only had two crises in my life. Crises are caused when there is a lack of oxygen flowing through the body, and pain attacks occur because of the lack of oxygen, stress, and improper rest. During my worst crises, I was dehydrated and my spleen was seriously inflamed, and I faced being flown to Children's Hospital for a blood transfusion and further examinations

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    Introduction The term sickle cell disease (SCD) involves a range of disorders characterized by the occurrence of at least one haemoglobin S (Hb S) allele and a second abnormal allele allowing abnormal haemoglobin polymerization leading to a symptomatic disorder. Most patients often are healthy at early stages in their life and become symptomatic later on in their life time. Fetal haemoglobin levels decrease and haemoglobin s levels increase. Sickle cell disease is determined at conception, when

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    there are millions of them they have folded up structure that cover all the small intestine. The villi have only got a 1 cell thick wall which makes it easy for the glucose to get through the wall and each villus has their own blood capillary which is also only one cell think which makes It easy for the glucose get through and into the capillary which then will go into the blood stream where the cardiovascular which will then transport the glucose to the parts of the body that needs it. Each villus

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