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Immune 50: Red blood cells are immune sentinels

Immune

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Red Blood Cells

We produce 200 billion red blood cells per day, which s astounding to me. We know that thereare certain times when you can have anemia. Anemia isa reduced numbers of red blood cells. decreases in red blood cells can happen during infection and during sepsis. But but it wasn't really clear or known why that would happen. And i think one of the important things tha wer gin to learn from this paper is at its one potential explanation for how you can have a a decrease in the number of red blood Cells. That was kind of important for the paper. There's another thing called oxy sytosis on ours that's really cool. So apparently bacteria become electr

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