Anemia Flashcards
What is hemoglobin ?
Hemoglobin is a measure of the oxygen carrying pigment that is present in the blood.
The blood pigment is ___________.
Hemoglobin
What is hematocrit ?
Hematocrit is the measure of the volume of whole blood that is made up of red blood cells
Red blood cell mass is______.
The number of red blood cells in a given defined volume .
What is anemia?
Low hemoglobin, hematocrit and or rbc mass.
The body is able to recognize when there is not an adequate amount of________.
RBCs
When there is not an adequate number of RBCs, the body manufactures this hormone:___________.
EPO or erythropoietin
Athletes have used EPO to increases the ______ of the RBCs. This increases their ________.
oxygen carrying capacity
endurance
EPO tells the bone marrow to produce_______ and ____________.
Erythronium burst forming units or BFU-e
colony forming units or CFU-e
BFU-e and CFU-e convert to _______ and expel their ________.
The loss of the ________ allows for the _______ shape of the blood cell.
Normoblasts
Nucleus
Nucleus
Biconcave
It is important for a RBC to have a biconcave shape in order for RBCs to reach the _____.
This provides ___________ to these tissues.
Peripheral tissue
Oxygen
The immature blood cells without a nucleus are called_________.
Reticulocytes
Reticulocytes are noticeable because the contain a visible ______network to produce ___________.
Ribosomal
Proteins
What are ribosomes ?
Enzymes that involve in translating RNA to proteins?
Reticulocytes spend about ______
Days in the bone marrow and _______ in the blood stream before they mature to RBCs by getting rid of their ________ network.
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RBCs
ribosomal
