Blood Flashcards
Normal ratio of what makes up blood
55% plasma
<1% Leukocytes + platelets
45% Erythrocytes
Normal vs Anemia vs Polycythemia
Anemia- Too little erythrocytes (RBC)
Polycythemia- Too much erythrocytes
what are Erythrocytes, Leucocytes and Thromboplastids
Erythrocytes- RBC
Leucocytes- WBC
Thromboplastids- Platelets
What are the 3 main blood proteins
- Albumins (maintain osmotic pressure)
- gama globulins
- Fibrinogen (clotting agent
What happens in beta thalasssemia
- Prod of beta globin chains is severely impaired
- results in severe microcytic hypochomic amenia
Treatment of beta thalassemia
-Patients recieving transfusion therapy also require iron chelation because since RBC are being destroyed there is too much iron in blood
Erythrocyte cell membrane: Glycophorin A and C functions
A- give rise to the MN blood groups
C- Cell shape
Erythrocyte cell memrane; Carbohydrate function
- Acts as antigens, A + B
Can a person with RH+ blood recieve blood from an RH-
Yes
- But if a person with RH- blood can debelop RH antibodies if they recieve blood from person with RH+
what two blood tppes can recieve all blood types
AB+, AB-
what two categories are WBC split up into
Agranulocytes- those without specific granulocytes (lymphocytes, monocytes)
Granular- those housing specific granules ( basophils, neurtrophils, eosinophils)
Neutrophils (percentage of WBC, task )
60-70% of total leukocyte pop
- Main task is to first come to acute bacterial infection
- granules have ingredients that will destroy bacteria
What is chemotaxis
The movement of leukocytes from the vessel lumen into into a damaged area is called chemotaxis and is mediated by substances known as chemotactic factors, that diffuse from the area of tissue damage.
Eosenophils (percentage of WBC, task)
- <4% of WBC
- function in parasitic infections and phagocytosing antigen-antibody complexes
- migrate to area by binding to histamine
Basophils (percentage of WBC, task)
- Less than 1%
- Function similar to mast cells