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Blood and Immune - Blood Composition and Function Flashcards

1
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How much blood does the average person have?

A

5L

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2
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What is the volume of blood that circulates through the heart every 24 hours?

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14,000 L

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3
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How many chambers are there in the heart and what are they called?

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4
Left and right ventricle
Left and right atrium

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4
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What part of the heart brings blood to the lungs?

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The pulmonary artery

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5
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What brings blood from the lung to the heart?

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The pulmonary vein

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6
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What are arteries made of?

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Muscular capillaries with elastic vessel walls that contain an abundance of smooth muscle.
This smooth muscle allows the artery to expand and constrict through an involuntary movement

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7
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Is blood pressure higher in veins or arteries?

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Arteries

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8
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Why is venous blood pressure lower than arterial?

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Because veins are not elastic

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9
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What is the functions of the valves in veins?

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To prevent back flow

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10
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What is systolic blood pressure?

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Highest blood pressure attained in arteries
Blood is at full compression
The left ventricle is squeezed at its tightest and the artery walls are expanded at their greatest

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11
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What is the purpose of blood?

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Blood provides a one-way pressurised system for the transport of oxygen, proteins glucose, lipids and essential ions required for normal cell function.

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12
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What is normal blood pressure?

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120/80

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13
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What does the 120 in blood pressure mean?

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Your systolic blood pressure in millimetres of mercury (120mm up the tube measuring blood pressure)

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14
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What is diastolic blood pressure?

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When blood pressure is at its lowest

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15
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What does the 80 in blood pressure mean?

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Diastolic blood pressure

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16
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What is hypertension?

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high blood pressure

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17
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What causes hypertension?

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Arteries are not expanding and contracting effectively (hardened, blocked or disease) which reduces flow and resulting in unwanted coagulation

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18
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What is a high blood pressure

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above 140-150

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19
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What is the result of low blood pressure?

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not enough blood going through arteries to supply tissues with blood

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20
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Common symptom of low blood pressure

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fainting

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21
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What is needed to retain blood pressure?

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Blood volume

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22
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What loss of blood is fatal?

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over 20% because pressure and flow is impaired and the result is tissue starved of O2

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23
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Why do we need blood pressure?

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to ensure even and efficient blood flow through small capillaries, low enough to prevent capillary leakage but high enough to avoid coagulation.

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24
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Main components of blood

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Cells, proteins, lipids, electrolytes, vitamins and hormones, glucose

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25
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Where do myeloid and lymphoid cells come from?

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multipotential stem cells

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26
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What are the two types of lymphoid cells?

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B and T cells

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27
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Where do B lymphocytes come from?

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Bone marrow

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28
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What is the function of B lymphocytes?

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They have antibodies/immunoglobulins that give adaptive immunity

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29
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Where do T lymphocytes mature?

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In the thymus

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30
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What are the 3 main cells in blood?

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Erythrocytes, leukocytes, thrombocytes

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31
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What is the function of Erythrocytes

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to transport oxygen to tissue

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32
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How many Erythrocytes in the body?

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5-6 million/ml

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33
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What is the shape of a Erythrocyte?

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It is a flat disc that has no nucleus

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34
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What is the main protein in Erythrocytes?

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Haemoglobin

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35
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What is the main function of leukocytes

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immune defence

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36
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What is the most common leukocyte

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Neutrophil

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37
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How many leukocytes are in the body

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10,000/mL

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38
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What is the function of neutrophils?

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respond immediately to microbial challenge like an infection, migrate quickly from capillary tissue to the site of infection, engulf the organism

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39
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What is the function of thrombocytes?

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Coagulation and tissue repair

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40
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How many thrombocytes are in the blood?

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400,000/ml

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41
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What is the size of thrombocytes

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1/20th of a leukocyte

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42
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what do thrombocytes do when an injury occurs?

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platelets link together as a part of the blood clot to block off wound to prevent leakage of blood or fluid from damaged tissue

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43
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What are the major proteins in blood?

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Albumin, haemoglobin, fibrinogen, immunoglobulins

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44
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How much of blood protein is albumin?

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50%

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45
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What is the function of Albumin

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Maintains colloidal osmotic pressure and hyponeiticity, Binds and transports many small molecules, hormones.

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46
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How does Albumin maintain osmotic pressure?

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It acts as a “Protein sponge” that absorbs fluid in blood and allows fluid to be balanced

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47
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What is the function of haemoglobin

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to carry oxygen from heart to other tissues in red blood cells

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48
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How much of blood is fibrinogen?

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7% of total blood proteins

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49
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What is the function of fibrinogen?

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It is cleaved in coagulation cascade to form fibrin molecules which link to form a clot (prevent tissue leakage)

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50
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What are lipids bound in?

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Lipoproteins

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51
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What are the main types of lipids?

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LDL, HDL, VLDL

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52
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Which lipid is bad for you?

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LDL

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53
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Why is LDL (lipid) bad for you?

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LDL = low density lipid

If levels of LDL’s increase, it means that a build-up of cholesterol can build up in your arteries = heart attack

54
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What are the major electrolytes in the blood?

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HCO3 -, Na+, Cl-, Ca++, Mg++, K+, creatine, creatinine

55
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What electrolyte is the most tightly regulated and why?

A

Potassium (K) because it regulates a lot of cellular functions like nerve potential and heart muscle activity

56
Q

What is the normal blood ph?

57
Q

How much variance can occur above/below blood pH before severe stress can occur?

58
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What is acidosis?

A

blood is more acidic (pH decreases)

59
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What is alkalosis

A

blood is more basic (pH increases)

60
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What are Immunoglobulins ?

A

antibodies

61
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What do Immunoglobulins do

A

Provide a diverse repertoire of antigen binding proteins

62
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What is complement?

A

Proteins that “coat” bacteria targeting them for phagocytosis

63
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What is the major complement component?

64
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What is opsonisation?

A

Irreversible coating of bacteria with complement so that phagocytes are attracted and can bind them.

65
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What are first cells that go to site of infection due to complement?

A

Neutrophils

66
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How many complement proteins are there?

67
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Number of coagulation factors

68
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What happens in a coagulation cascade?

A

13 proteins cleaved in an ordered cascade resulting in cleavage of fibrinogen -> fibrin (forms clot)

69
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What electrolyte is essential to coagulation?

70
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What is the most common form of haemophilia?

A

Factor VIII (8) deficiency

71
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What is haemophilia

A

Haemophiliacs blot does not clot (they can bleed to death from vascular leakage)

72
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What is the function of electrolytes?

A

Isotonicity and buffering

73
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What is centrifugation?

A

technique used to separate blood into its different components

74
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What is added to blood before centrifugation what is its purpose?

A

An anticoagulant to stop blood clotting

75
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Example of a anticoagulant?

76
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How many layers result from centrifugation?

77
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What is the top layer of a centrifuge?

A

The plasma layer

78
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What % is the plasma layer in a centrifuge

79
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What is the plasma layer?

A

Blood with fibrinogen present (ie has not clotted yet)

80
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What is contained in the plasma layer?

A

Soluble proteins, lipids and platelets

81
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What is the middle layer of a centrifuge?

A

The buffy coat

82
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What is the buffy coat?

A

Layer of white cells

83
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What is in the buffy coat?

A

Lymphocytes, myeloid and leukocytes

84
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What is the bottom layer of the centrifuge?

A

Packed red cells

85
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What % is the packed red cells

86
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What is anemia

A

You don’t make enough red blood cells

87
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Symptoms of anemia

A

Difficulty breathing, become tired

88
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What causes Cerebral Edema

A

Making too many red blood cells (happens normally by being at high altitudes, blood becomes viscous lead)

89
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What is plasma

A

The viscous liquid fraction of un-coagulated blood without cells

90
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What is contained in plasma

A

Fibrinogen (removed with coagulation)

91
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Why can’t plasma be electorpheresed?

A

Fibrinogen causes problems

92
Q

What is serum?

A

Less viscous yellow liquid remaining after the removal of the clot

93
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What is serum electrophoresis?

A

Separating blood using an electric field

94
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What are the five major protein fractions of serum electrophoresis

A

albumin, α1, α2, β and γ

95
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What % of serum electrophoresis is albumin

96
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What % of serum electrophoresis is globulin? (albumin, α1, α2, β and γ)

97
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What is the γ fraction?

A

Where anti-bodes/immunoglobulins reside

98
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is γ fraction + or -

A

Positively charged

So they migrate towards the negative electrode on serum electrophoresis

99
Q

What is multiple myeloma?

A

A type of leukaemia

Aberrant B cell present and is producing antibodies in high amounts

100
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Where do myeloma cells reside?

A

In bone marrow

101
Q

Where do blood cells come from?

A

A single multipotent stem cell in bone marrow

102
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Are multipotent stem cells rare?

103
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What do multipotent stem cells do?

A

differentiate into any other mature hematopoietic cells in the body

104
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What surface antigen is on multipotential Hematopoietic stem cells

105
Q

What do CD34 HSC divide into?

A

Myeloid and lymphoid progenitors

106
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What does the myeloid progenitor divide into?

A

Other myeloid cell types

Consist of erythrocytes, thrombocytes, mast cells, myeloblasts, leukocytes

107
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What does the lymphoid progenitor divide into?

A

Natural killer cells

Large lymphocytes, small lymphocytes which makes T lymphocytes and B lymphocytes (ie forms plasma cells)

108
Q

What factors drive haematopoiesis?

A

GM-CSF, EPO and G-CSF

109
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What produces GM-CSF

A

Macrophages, T-cells, endothelial cells and fibroblasts

110
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What does GM-CSF stimulate?

A

Production of neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils and monocytes

111
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What is the function of the GM-CSF factor?

A

Stimulate the myeloid lineage

112
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How does GM-CSF factor work?

A

Receptors on the myeloid progenitor cells binds to GM-CSF which stimulates cells to differentiate further into myeloid cells

113
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What produces EPO

A 
Kidney = adulthood 
Liver = perinatal
114
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What is the function of EPO

A

Signal production of Red Blood Cells

115
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What type of factor is used in blood transplants?

116
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What type of factor is the target of drug testing?

117
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What does GM-CSF stand for

A

Granulocyte Macrophage Colony Stimulating factor

118
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What does G-CSF stand for

A

Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor

119
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What is the function of G-CSF

A

Stimulate production of granulocytes but also acts to mature neutrophils

120
Q

What is the function of the lung in oxygen and transport exchange?

A

Provides a vast surface area for blood and consist of the alveoli for efficient exchange of O2 and CO2

121
Q

Colour of blood in venous system

A

Dark red (lacks oxygen)

122
Q

Colour of pulmonary blood

A

Bright red (spurts out due to pressure)

123
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How much of your total blood volume is red blood cells?

124
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How much of your red blood cells dry weight is haemoglobin?

125
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What carries oxygen in red blood cells?

A

Protein haemoglobin

126
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How many lobes are in a haemoglobin

127
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What is contained in each lobe of a haemoglobin protein

A

A heme molecule

128
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What is contained in each heme in a haemoglobin protein

A

An iron atom, ferrous form, Fe2+

129
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What regulates the association and dissociation of O2 from heme

A

Partial pressure of O2

O2 readily associates in the lungs, dissociates in the tissues

130
Q

Partial pressure of oxygen in the alveoli of the lungs

131
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Partial pressure of CO2 in the alveoli of the lungs

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