What are red blood cells
What are red blood cells
Red blood cells are round with a flattish, indented center, like doughnuts without a hole, that biconcave shaped. Hemoglobin is the protein inside red blood cells that carries oxygen. Red blood cells also remove carbon dioxide from body, transporting it to the lungs for you to exhale.
Red blood cells are made inside bones, in the bone marrow. They typically live for about 120 days, and then they die.
The cytoplasm of erythrocytes is rich in hemoglobin, an iron-containing biomolecule that can bind oxygen and is responsible for the red color of the cells. The cell membrane is composed of proteins and lipids and this structure provides properties essential for physiological cell function such as stability and deformability while traversing the circulatory system and specifically the capillary network.
In humans, mature red blood cells are flexible and oval biconcave disks. They lack a cell nucleus and most organelles, in order to accommodate maximum space for hemoglobin; they can be viewed as sacks of hemoglobin, with a plasma membrane as the sack.
Foods rich in iron help you maintain healthy red blood cells. Vitamins are also necessary to build healthy red blood cells.
Hemoglobin is the protein inside red blood cells that carries oxygen. Red blood cells also remove carbon dioxide from body, transporting it to the lungs for you to exhale.
Red blood cells are made inside bones, in the bone marrow. They typically live for about 120 days, and then they die.
The cytoplasm of erythrocytes is rich in hemoglobin, an iron-containing biomolecule that can bind oxygen and is responsible for the red color of the cells. The cell membrane is composed of proteins and lipids and this structure provides properties essential for physiological cell function such as stability and deformability while traversing the circulatory system and specifically the capillary network.
In humans, mature red blood cells are flexible and oval biconcave disks. They lack a cell nucleus and most organelles, in order to accommodate maximum space for hemoglobin; they can be viewed as sacks of hemoglobin, with a plasma membrane as the sack.
Foods rich in iron help you maintain healthy red blood cells. Vitamins are also necessary to build healthy red blood cells.
