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Are there any mitochondria in our red blood cells?

Posted by attilacsordas on January 19, 2007

One thing people usually know that human red blood cells do not have a cell nucleus, so they are lacking chromosomal DNA. But far less people have a guess about mitochondria’s presence in the erythrocytes. So let’s ask the experts Wikipedia. The answer is NO, mammalian red blood cells also lose their mitochondria during erythropoiesis at phase 3, when normoblasts eject organelles. The way, functional red blood cells produce energy is by fermentation, via anaerobic glycolysis of glucose followed by lactic acid production. As the cells do not own any protein coding DNA they cannot produce new structural or repair proteins or enzymes and their lifespan is limited.

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21 Responses to “Are there any mitochondria in our red blood cells?”

  1. aman said

    how can red blod cell move with what energy its use

  2. Mstudent said

    heartbeats :)

  3. tara said

    yes but i had not detected yet may be cant say elsewere.

  4. Bash said

    Red blood cell has no mitochondria because,mitochondria is found in a tissue that has nucleus and no in the red blood cell

  5. Hi…All
    Thanks your Data about Are there any mitochondria in our red blood cells. thanks you :)

  6. tari said

    электрошокер

  7. The cell is one of the most basic units of life. There are millions of different types of cells. There are cells that are organisms onto themselves, such as microscopic amoeba and bacteria cells. And there are cells that only function when part of a larger organism, such as the cells that make up your body.

  8. Very interesting post – Might be old new, but it was new to me

  9. hi said

    do red blood cells have vacuoles?

  10. drcancer said

    what if they were Make Us Healthy

  11. star said

    hey! why they don’t have it?

  12. Arcanyn said

    Makes sense that they wouldn’t – after all, most mitochondrial proteins are produced in the nucleus, which means that mitochondria in a cell without a nucleus would be unable to function and thereby be pretty useless.

  13. Thankyou for this information!! :D

  14. games said

    Thank you data good

  15. Very nice article, very interesting, you made me go back to the biology days in the University, LOL.

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  18. I did not know that mammalian red blood cells also lose their mitochondria during erythropoiesis. This is good info about the composition of red blood cells.

  19. Soph said

    RBC’s do NOT have mitochondria. They consume ATP aerobically so that they do not consume the oxygen they are carrying.

  20. priyanka said

    what is meant by erythropoiesis??

  21. Anderson said

    Erythropoiesis = Red cell formation.

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