Blood, Immune, Lymph Flashcards
What is blood?
A liquid connective tissue that consists of cells surrounded by extracellular matrix.
What are the three general functions of blood?
Transportation, regulation, and protection.
What are the key points of transportation?
Transporting oxygen from to lungs to cells and carrying nutrients from the gastrointestinal tract to body cells and heat and waste products away from cells.
What is the regulation function?
Blood helps regulate the pH of body fluids. The heat-absorbing and coolant properties of the water in blood plasma. Osmotic pressure also influences the water content of cells.
What is the protection function of blood?
Blood clots in response to injury which protects it against excessive loss. White blood cells protect against disease by carrying phagocytosis and producing proteins called antibodies. Contains additional proteins called interferons and complement that also help protect against disease.
What is the temperature of blood?
100.4F or 38C. It’s slightly alkaline ranging from 7.35 to 7.45.
How much of the body’s weight does blood constitute?
8%
What is the blood volume in average adults?
5-6 liters male
4-5 liters female
What are the two parts of blood?
Formed elements and plasma.
What does WBC stand for?
White blood cell and it makes up the remaining one percent of blood volume along with platelets.
What constitutes 99 percent of formed elements?
Red blood cells.
What is hematocrit?
Total volume of blood occupied by red blood cells.
What is the normal range for HCT?
Males 42-52
Females 37-47
What is the buffy coat?
A very thin layer that lies packed between the packed RBCs and blood plasma. It makes up less than 1 percent of total blood volume and consists of WBCs and platelets.
What is blood plasma made up of?
91.5 percent water, 7 percent proteins, and 1.5 percent solutes.
Where are proteins in the blood synthesized?
Mainly by the liver. The most plentiful plasma protein are albumins which account for about 54%.
Red blood cells or erythrocytes contain hemoglobin which colors the cells what?
Red
How much blood does a healthy adult have?
Male 5.4million
Female 4.8 million
How long do red blood cells live?
Only about 120 days.
What is the normal range for white blood cells?
5000-10000uL
How long do white blood cells live?
A few hours to a few days.
What do white blood cells do?
Combat pathogens and other foreign substances.
What do red blood cells have that white blood cells do not?
Hemoglobin
How are WBCs classified as?
Granular or Agranular, depending on whether they contain chemical filled cytoplasmic granule that are made visible by staining when viewed through a light microscope.
What are 50-70% or all WBCs?
Neutrophils. Nucleus has 2-5 lobes, cytoplasm has very fine lilac granules. Phagocytosis destroys bacteria with lysozymes, defensins, and strong oxidants.
What percentage do eosinophils make up of WBC?
1-5%. Nucleus has 2 lobes, cytoplasm full of arge, red orange granules. Suppresses effects of histamine in allergic reactions, also destroys certain parasitic worms.
Basophils
0-1% of all WBCs. Nucleus has two lobes, has large cytoplasmic granules that appear deep blue-purple. Releases heparin, histamine and serotonin that intensifies the inflammatory response in allergic reactions.
Lymphocytes
make up 20-40% of all WBCs. Nucleus is round or slightly indented. The cytoplasm forms a thin rim around the nucleus that appears sky blue. Mediates immune responses, including antigen antibody reactions. B cells will transform into plasma cells that secrete antibodies. T cells attack invading viruses, cancer cells and transplanted tissue cells. While natural killer cells attack a wide variety of microbes and certain spontaneously arising tumor cells.