Blood - Exam 2 Flashcards
Blood
- Transport of [] and nutrients to cells
- Removal of [] and waste from cells/tissue
- maintains [] - [] balance, is a good buffering system
- Medium for the transport of [], hormones, and [] factors, etc
- Transports cells and substances responsible for [] []
- [] and coagulation
- Oxygen
- CO2
- Acid-base
- Cells, hormones, and clotting factors etc
- immune response
- thermoregulation
T/F
The blood is not a good buffering system?
FALSE
The blood is a good buffering system
Components of Blood:
- [] % Blood Plasma and [] % Formed elements
- Blood Plasma
- [] % Proteins
- 91.5% []
- 1.5 % [] []
- What are the 3 types of formed elements?
- 55% plasma; 45% FE
- Blood Plasma
- 7% Proteins
- 91.5 % water
- 1.5 % other solutes
- Platelets, WBCs, RBCs
Complete Blood Count:
- WBC - number of [] blood cells
- RBC - number of [] blood cells
- HGB - total amount of [] in the blood
- HCT - [], fraction of blood composed of RBCs
- PLT - [] count
- WBC “differential” - measure the percentages of [] types in ciculating blood
- white blood cells
- red blood cells
- hemoglobin
- hematocrit
- Platelets
- White blood cell
Why is a reticulocyte count used to estimate the rate of erythrocyte production?
Reticulocyte’s are immature RBCs. So if there are a lot of reticulocytes, then the body is currently making a lot of RBCs.
What is the best method to display cell types in peripheral blood?
What type of stain is used on the blood?
- Blood Smear
- Special mixture of dyes - Wright’s Stain
List the different types of WBC in order of least abundant to most abundant.
Basophils (.5-1.0%)
Eosinophils (2-4%)
Monocytes (3-8%
Lymphocytes (20-25%)
Neutrophils (60-70%)
T/F
In adults, the lymphocyte is the most abundant WBC in the body?
FALSE
The neutrophil is most abundant in adults. The lymphocyte is most abundant in children, pre puberty.
What makes up the small layer in a hematocrit tube called the “buffy coat?”
Leukocytes and platelets
[] refers to plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
Serum
What is the % composition (s) of the Plasma and its components?
- Blood = 55% Plasma
- 7% proteins
- 91.5% water
- 1.5% other solutes
What 3 major proteins make up the 7% of blood plasma? What is their function in plasma?
- Albumin
- key molecule in osmoregulation
- Globulins
- Used with antibodies and chaperoning
- Fibrinogen
- Used in clotting
Erythrocytes (RBCs):
- [] - [] microns in diamters
- No [] or organelles
- [] shape with a central pallor
- This increases [] [] for gas []
- Function is to bind and transport [] and []
- Lifespan = [] days
- 7-8 microns
- Nucleus
- Biconcave
- surface area for gas exchange
- oxygen and CO2
- 120 days
T/F
Leukocytes tend to stack into columns called rouleaux, usually caused by increased levels of immunoglobulins
FALSE
Erythrocytes stack into “Rouleaux”
Since there are no organelles in a RBC, what does the RBC depend on for energy?
Glycolysis
What 2 periphery proteins did we learn about that anchor the RBC plasma membrane ot the cytoskeleton and allow the memrbane to be flexible enough to fit through all the different blood vessels?
PSYCHE
- We learned about 2 integral proteins.
- Band 3 and Glycophorin
Hereditary spherocytosis is caused by an abnormal arrangement fo the interal cytoskeleton due to a missing or abnormal [] or [] molecule
Spectrin or Ankyrin
What form of hemoglobin binds irreversibly to glucose?
HBA1c
What is the most common type of hemoglobin?
HbA
2-alpha, 2-beta chains.
96% of total hemoglobin
- HbA2
- [] - [] % of adult Hb
- Consists of 2-[] and 2-[] chains
- HbF
- [] hemoglobin
- Contains 2-[] chains and 2-[] chains
- Binds to [] much more efficiently
- HbA2
- 1-3 % of adult Hb
- Consists of 2-alpha and 2-delta chains
- HbF
- Fetal hemoglobin
- Contains 2-alpha chains and 2-gamma chains
- Binds to O2 much more efficiently
T/F
Only 2/4 hemoglobin chains in a RBC are attached to an Iron heme group?
FALSE
All 4 hemoglobin chains in an RBC have a iron heme group.
Sickle Cell Anemia is caused by a [] mutation in the [] - chain of Hb
point; B-chain of Hb
Abnormal Red Blood Cells
- Microcytosis - ….
- [] - increase in cell size
- [] - variability in cell size
- Polychromasia - …..
- Hypochromasia - …..
- [] - 2 disting populations of cells
- [] - change in chape
- Examples….?
- decrease in cell size
- Macrocytosis
- Anisocytosis
- Bluish tint to the cell due to a few ribosomes in you RBCs
- The central pallor is too large
- Dimorphism
- Poikilocytosis
- Schistocytes
- Sickle Cell, Spherocytes, Target cells
T/F
Schisotcytes can form when an RBC passes through a fibrin clot or due to a mechanical heart valve prostheses?
TRUE!
Target cells are characterized by a disproportional increase in teh ratio of [] [] [] to []
surface membrane area to volume
T/F
Most white blood cells perfrom their immune response duties inside the blood
FALSE
WBC leave the blood and perform their functions in CT.
What is the method that WBCs use to move past the endothelial lining?
Diapedesis
What are the 2 groups of WBCs, and then what are the specific types of WBC in each group?
- Granular
- Neutrophils
- Eosinophils
- basophils
- Agranular
- Lymphocytes
- Monocytes
What molecule causes the endothelial cells to widen enough for a WBC to pass through?
Histamine
Granulocytes contain two types of granules, [] and []
Agranulocyes contain one type of granule, []
Specific and azurophilic
Azurophilic
Neutrophil:
- Also called [] or [] / []
- [] - [] microns in diameter
- [] - [] % of circulating WBC, [] abundant
- [], first line of defense against [] [].
- Binding of antigens to [] receptors induces the release of [] which leads to fever.
- polymorphonuclear leukocytes or PMNs/polymorphs
- 10-12 microns
- 40-75%, most abundant
- phagocytic, bacter invasion
- PMN; cytokines
Dead [] contributes to the formation of pus at the site of infection
Neutrophils