chapter 16- Exam 2 Flashcards
what is the importance of microciruculation
- Important in the transport of nutrients to tissues
* Site of waste product removal
what are arterioles
Small precapillary resistance vessels (10-15μ) composed of an endothelium surrounded by one or more layers of smooth muscle cells
what are the arterioles rich in
Richly innervated by sympathetic adrenergic fibers → vasoconstrict
what do the arterioles regulate
systemic vascular resistance
what are terminal arterioles
metarterioles
what is a metarterioles
precapillary sphincter can be found here
what are precapillary sphincter
no muscular coat, but smooth muscle fibers encircle the vessel at intermittent points
what is a capillary
Composed of single layer of endothelial cells surrounded by a basement membrane
how big are capillaries
Diameter of capillaries is 4-9 microns
—-Rbc ~6-8 microns
how does soulte and water move acorss capillaries
intercellular cleft
plasmalemmal vesicesl
what is an intercellular cleft
space between cells
how do substances transfer across membranes
diffusion
what is diffusion
Most important means by which substances are transferred between plasma and interstitial fluid
what is lipid solubel
substances diffuse directly through cell membrane of capillaries (I.E.CO2, O2)
what is lipid insoluble
substances such as H2O, Na, Cl, glucose cross capillary walls via intercellular clefts
what enhances diffusion across capllaires
differences across capillary enhances
how do water soluble and non lipid soluble move in the body
through the pores
what is the width of capillary intecellular slits
is 6 to 7 nanometers
what is the permeability of capillarys pores
for different substance it will vary according to their molecular diameters
***** capillaries in different tissues have difference in their permeability
what help determine the permeability
the capillary form!!
what are some types of capillaires
Continuous
Fenestrated - kidney
Discontinuous - liver
what is the most common capillary tissue
continuous
– muscle, skin, lung, connective and nervous tissue
what does BM mean abbreviation
Basement membrane (BM)
what does ICJ mean abbreviation
Intercellular junction (ICJ)
what does V mean abbreviation
Vesicles (V)
what does OF mean abbreviation
Open fenestrae (OF)
what does DF mean abbreviation
Diaphragmmed fenestrae (DF)
what does G mean abbreviation
Gap (G)
what is continous tissue
Endothelial cells are continuous, and only allow small substances like water and ions to diffuse through intercellular clefts
what is fenestrated tissue
some have diaphragms – allow small substances and limited protein
Some with no diaphragms – slit pores (kidney)