To: Minnesoootan
No. The cells in transfused blood don't reproduce, but slowly die off and are replaced by one's own blood as the blood-cell producing cells in your bone marrow (and elsewhere) operate on their normal cycle.
If a DNA profile was performed on your blood soon after you had received a transfusion, there'd be some confusion, as both profiles would be mixed together. But after a few weeks, the transfused cells would be gone.
54 posted on
07/19/2002 12:02:16 PM PDT by
RonF
To: RonF
Thanks for the answer to a question that has always bothered me,but out of laziness I never researched.
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