Is there a difference in white blood cells produced by leukemia and ones produced regularly?
Like, is there a major difference in the cell makeup when it is produced by leukemia when the cell is unnecesary.
- Kasey
i dont think so......not that i remember anyway. i remember there being no difference. but it was about 7 years ago. so dont take my answer seriously. i could be wrong. i was 6.
- zrepmd
Yes.
The biggest is that the ones from leukemia are cancer cells- they therefore have "powers" not normally possessed by your normal cells. The biggest issue is their growth and survival is uncontrolled, unlike your normal ones which obey many signals to control growth.
They also mark differently frequently in terms of types of proteins expressed on cell surface as well as internally within the cell.
In most cases, they do not function very well in infection fighting (what they are usually doing).
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