Heme consists of a ringlike organic compound known as porphyrin and attached to an iron atom, It is the iron atom that reversibly binds oxygen as the blood travels between the lungs & the...
There are abnormal types of hemoglobin such as Sickle cell disease (HbS), Thalassemias, and Methemoglobinaemia, Sickle-shaped RBCs are fragile and easily hemolysed so anemia will occur (sickle cell anemia), The abnormal hemoglobin does not...
Hemopoiesis (hematopoiesis) is the formation of balanced amounts of different blood elements. The number of daily formed blood elements must equalize the amount of daily destroyed elements. Hemoppoiesis includes erythropoiesis, thrombopoiesis, granulopoiesis, monopoiesis, and...
