Re: How many blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second?

Date: Wed Jan 31 04:40:38 2001
Posted By: Elsa Lee, Grad student, Molecular Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Area of science: Anatomy
ID: 976546382.An

Message:


Dear Ben,

In one second  you will lose about 3 million red blood cells. During that 
same second, your bone marrow will have produced the same number of new 
ones.


Have fun with science,
Elsa

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