Oxygen Movement and the Diseases of Blood

Myoglobin HERE

Heme HERE

Hemoglobin HERE

Oxygen Binding HERE and HERE

Bohr Effect HERE

Fetal Hemoglobin HERE

Blood Types HERE - New Liver, New Blood HERE

Beta Globins HERE

Hemoglobin Variants HERE and HERE

Flu and Tamiflu HERE

Anemia

• Aplastic and Fanconi (bone marrow stops making blood cells)
• Hemolytic (hemolysis of red blood cells)
• Iron Deficiency / Iron Absorption HERE
• Pernicious (deficiency of B12)
• Sickle Cell Anemia (mutation and polymerizatoin of hemoglobin) HERE, HERE, HERE
  • Sickle Cell Anemia Mechanism HERE
  • Sickle Cell Anemia and Protection Against Malaria HERE and HERE
• Thalassemia (deficiency of alpha/beta chains)

Hemochromatosis (build up of too much iron)

Hemophilia (deficiency of clotting)

Idiopathic Throbocytopenic Purpura (low platelet numbers)

Polycytheima Vera (too many red blood cells)