BIO 224 blood Flashcards
What is blood
5 liters
fluid connective tissue and makes up 8 % total body weight
formed elements
cella and cell fragments found suspnded in plasma
(ERYTHROCYTES; RBC
LEUKOCYTE; WBC
PLATELETS ; SMALL CELLULAR FRAGMENTS)
Plasma
1 or 2 major components of blood a
liquid extracellular martix of blood
Centrifuged
3 layers in blood smaple
Plasma
55% total volume
water, plasma protien, and small soultes
Buffy coat
1%
Platelets and leukocyte
Erythrocytes
(hematocrit)
erythrocytes ;44%
some blood functions
Exchanging gases , distributing solutes, preforming immune func., maintain body temp, func. in blood clotting, preserving acid- base hemostasis, stabilazing BP
Higher RBC surface area
is vital in gas exachange
anucleate
mature RBC; lost nucleus during maturation
- lack most other cell organelles
Hemoglobin
Large protien with 4 polypeptide subunits ( 2 alpha and two beta)
heme group
each polypeptide is bound to iorn- containing compunds
Oxyhemoglobin
iron ion in each heme group is oxidized; when binds to oxygen in regions of high oxygen
Carbaminohemoglobin
lower oxygen accounts for 23% of co2 tranport in blood
carboxyhemoglobin
hemoglobin bind to carbon monoxide
- Chnages shape making it unable to uload oxygen into oxygen depreived tissue and lead to death
Erythrocyte life span
100-120 days
Due to harsh enviroment
Hematopoiesis
take place in red bone marrow
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSC)
formed elemnts in blood are produced by
erythropoiesis
specific hematopoietic process that produces erythrocytes from HSC
What triggers erythropoiesis
low oxygen detected by kidney and
then produces erthropoietin into blood into the bone marrow which turns into normal
Erythrocyte death
- Erythrocyte becomes trapped in sinusoids of spleen
- spleen macropages digest erthrycytes
- hemo is broken down into maino acids, iron ions and bilirubin
4a. Iron ion and amino acids are recyled and used to make new hemo in red bone marrow
4b. bilirubin is semt into liver for excretion
Anemia
low oxygen carying capacity of blood
anemia 3 main causes
low hemoglobin
loe hemocrit
abnormal hemoglobin
Symptomes of anemia
Pallor, fatigue, weakness and shortness of breath