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= Introduction = toc

“Ready,Aim,FIre!” The army gets ready to attack the virus that just attacked the body. The White blood cells come atack all the viruses. The white blood cell can help humans a lot. There are different types of white blood cells. There is pathogens that hurts the white blood cells too.

= Can The White Blood Cells Help the Human Body =

The white blood cell is created in the bone marrow. After it is created it is like a guard. It flows with the blood cell. If the human body gets a cut and the white blood cells are alarmed, the white blood cells become too thin to go through some bones (Burnie). The white blood cells find the bacteria to fight it. The cells and get tired, so they send messenger proteins to alarm the T- cell to create more white blood cells(Burnie). There are T cells, B cells and macrophages (The Circulatory Story). The T cells recognize a pathogen (an organism that causes disease) and see if it's from the outside, or from your body. T cells also gives energy to the white blood cells and B cells to keep them alive in the battle. The B cells make antibodies to let the white blood cells destroy the virus. Macrophages eat pathogens. In order to do this, white blood cells have many structures that help it to move around and keep the human body healthy.

= The Army of Our Body White Blood Cells =

The White blood cells that have structures to protect the body. B cells produce antibodies, antibodies are really small things That can look like a Y,the antibodies can hold on to the antigen, which is the outside of a pathogen and kill it or make it slow down so the white blood cell can eat it (Padilla et al 148). The white blood cell can change into different shapes, they can become very tiny and go through the,bone so they can save the body from the Pathogen. But sometimes the White blood cells can't beat every pathogen like leukemia.



= Are Some Diseases Harmful for the White Blood Cells Army? =

The White blood cell can be affected by leukemia. Leukemia is a pathogen (disease) that affects the bone marrow. The bone marrow is where White blood cells are created,if leukemia affects the bone marrow then it will make too many white blood cells that don't function and that will affect the human body. “ In a patient with leukemia, many of the white blood cells produced in the bone marrow do not mature normally. These abnormal cells, called leukemic cells, are unable to fight infection the way healthy white cells can. As they grow in number, the leukemic cells also interfere with the production of other blood cells.” ( [|__http://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/leukemia__] ).

There are different types of leukemia,there is acute leukemia and chronic. Acute leukemia is when The bone marrow is rapidly developing White blood cells,and chronic leukemia is when the bone marry is slowly developing White blood cells (http://kidshealth.org/en/parents/cancer-leukemia.html) .Leukopenia is when you have a very little amount of white blood cells,and that makes you vulnerable to some types of viruses

= Conclusion =

We all thank our army for protection of our country but we never thank our White blood cells for keeping us alive. But as some soldiers die our cells die too there are things that can beat them., like leukemia. it is very hard for people to not be really sick,so are people who have leukemia can get very sick at anything even a little cold could affect you real badly.

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