Sickle Cell Anemia Size (inches):A4 100% cotton rag

100% cotton rag

A microscopic view of a blood smear featuring red blood cells

[cited 2020 April 15]

Shown in this piece are amorphous urates

Sickle Cell Anemia Size (inches):A4 100% cotton ragFine Art Print A microscopic view of a peripheral blood smear depicting sickle cells. Sickle cells can occur when a person inherits a single point mutation in the gene for hemoglobin, the oxygen carrying protein of red blood cells, resulting in an abnormal form of hemoglobin called hemoglobin S. With the inheritance of one gene (heterozygous), one is said to have sickle cell trait and rarely does illness occur. Sickle cell disease or sickle cell