Blood and Immune B4 Flashcards
What is the average blood volume of a human?
5L. 14,000L circulates the heart every 24hrs
How much blood loss could be fatal to a human?
Any more than 20% flow is impaired and tissue is starved of oxygen
Oxygen, proteins glucose, lipids and essential ions are carried around the body by what connective tissue?
Blood
What system is responsible for the transportation of oxygenated blood from the heart to the tissue?
Arteries
What system is responsible for the transportation of deoxygenated blood from the tissue to the heart?
Veins
What system exchanges nutrients and waste between the tissue and blood?
Capillaries
What pressure is maintained by the elastic vessel wall (abundance of smooth muscle)?
Arterial Pressure
What pressure is lower due to the absence of elasticity in veins and one way valves are thus required for the prevention of back flow?
Venous pressure
How much of the total blood volume is made up from Red Blood Cells?
45%
How much does haemoglobin constitute of RBCs dry weight?
96%
If Fe2+ can bond to 1 Oxygen, how many can a haemoglobin carry?
4 Oxygens
This compound fatally targetes the Fe2+ containing cytochrome C Oxidase in the mitochondria (essential for respiration). Thus, stopping heart activity immediately.
Cyanide
Albumin, phosphate, bicarbonate, creatinine are all what in regards to blood?
All buffers blood
What disorder?
- Most inherited genetically. Impairs the bodies ability to make blood clots resulting int longer bleeding after injury, easy bruising, increased risk of bleeding internally.
Haemophilia
What is the viscous liquid fraction of uncoagulated blood?
Plasma
What is the straw liquid that remains after coagulation.. Which is normally yellow but after a fatty meal is cream coloured?
Serum
What technique is useful for detecting abnormal growth of plasma cells?
Blood seperation by Electrophoresis
Cells, Proteins, Lipids, Electrolytes, salts, minerals, vitamins, hormones and glucose all are major components of ?
Blood
What makes up 50% of total blood protein, is responsible for colloidal osmotic pressure, binds and transports many small molecules and proteins and affects drugs bioavailability?
Albumin
What is the 2nd most abundant of total blood protein, cleaved by the enzyme thrombin which forms cross linked fibrin which forms a blood clot?
Fibrinogen
What makes up 10% of total blood protein, is found in the y fraction, responsible for immunity, produced by plasma cells and is elevated in disease
Ig - Immunoglobulins
What is essential for the proteolytic activation cascade and is essential for innate immunity?
Complement - C’
What is a groups of zymogens (inactive until cleaved), essential for phagocytosis and innate immunity?
Complement - C’
What initiates the cleavage of fibrinogen to fibrin?
Coagulation
Neutrophils, basophils, eosinophils and monocytes are all what kind of cells?
Myeloid Cells
B and T lymphocytes are all what kind of cells?
Lymphocyte cells
G - CSF, GM-CSF and EPO are all factors of what process?
Haematopoiesis
Which pathway of the complement system is initiated by antibodies binding to the surface of the microbe. C1, C2, C3 and C4condense on the antibody to from a bound C3 convertase .
Classical Activation
Which pathway of the complement system activates C3 by simply being near the surface of the microbe which then activates another type of C3 convertase?
Alternative Pathway
Which pathway of the complement system involves lectins (a carbohydrate) binding to proteins in blood that then bind to unusual carbohydrates found only on microbes. Complement condenses on the bound lectins
Lectin Pathway
What are small polypeptides, generated by the cleavage of the larger complement proteins, are powerful chemoattractants that recruit and activate phagocytes to the site of infection?
Anaphylatoxins
The coagulation cascades activates what major blood protein?
Fibrinogen