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  2. Plasma protein - Wikipedia

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    Contrary to popular belief, haemoglobin is not a blood protein, as it is carried within red blood cells, rather than in the blood serum. Serum albumin accounts for 55% of blood proteins, [1] is a major contributor to maintaining the oncotic pressure of plasma and assists, as a carrier, in the transport of lipids and steroid hormones.

  3. List of human blood components - Wikipedia

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    Protein building blocks total 3.8-5.3 ... Needed for nerve cells, red blood cells, and to make DNA 6-14 ...

  4. Blood plasma - Wikipedia

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    Blood plasma is a light amber-colored liquid component of blood in which blood cells are absent, but which contains proteins and other constituents of whole blood in suspension. It makes up about 55% of the body's total blood volume. [ 1 ]

  5. Hemoglobin - Wikipedia

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    Hemoglobin S (α 2 β S 2) – A variant form of hemoglobin found in people with sickle cell disease. There is a variation in the β-chain gene, causing a change in the properties of hemoglobin, which results in sickling of red blood cells. Hemoglobin C (α 2 β C 2) – Another variant due to a variation in the β-chain gene.

  6. Composition of the human body - Wikipedia

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    In a large sample of adults of all ages and both sexes, the figure for water fraction by weight was found to be 48 ±6% for females and 58 ±8% water for males. [8] Water is ~11% hydrogen by mass but ~67% hydrogen by atomic percent , and these numbers along with the complementary % numbers for oxygen in water, are the largest contributors to ...

  7. Red blood cell - Wikipedia

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    In 1959, by use of X-ray crystallography, Max Perutz was able to unravel the structure of hemoglobin, the red blood cell protein that carries oxygen. [72] The oldest intact red blood cells ever discovered were found in Ötzi the Iceman, a natural mummy of a man who died around 3255 BCE. These cells were discovered in May 2012.

  8. Not Into Eggs? These 10 Foods Pack More Protein - AOL

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    "Protein is a vital nutrient that helps to promote growth, repair and rebuild muscle and damaged cells and body tissues, and also supports in other metabolic activities in the body," says ...

  9. Blood - Wikipedia

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    The formed elements are the two types of blood cell or corpuscle – the red blood cells, (erythrocytes) and white blood cells (leukocytes), and the cell fragments called platelets [12] that are involved in clotting. By volume, the red blood cells constitute about 45% of whole blood, the plasma about 54.3%, and white cells about 0.7%.