ERYTHROCYTES (Part 5) Flashcards
This is rarely done because of its inaccuracy and questionable necessity.
Manual RBC counts (Obsolete)
When automation is not available, what manual RBC tests are more accurate?
microhematocrit and hemoglobin concentration
Values that are ELEVATED in people living at a HIGHER ALTITUDE over what they would be at sea level?
RBC Count
Hemoglobin
Hematocrit
The difference in values in relation to the altitude?
1 g Hb/dL at 2 km altitude
2 g Hb/dL at 3 km altitude
Conventional unit for Children (8 to 13 y.o.):
4.00 to 5.40 x 10^6/μL
4.00 to 5.40 x 10^12/L
Conventional unit for Adult (male):
4.60 to 6.00 x 10^6/μL
4.60 to 6.00 x 10^12/L
Conventional unit for Adult (female):
4.00 to 5.40 x 10^6/μL
4.00 to 5.40 x 10^12/L
major glycolytic pathway
Embden-Meyerhof Pathway
Glucose penetrates the red blood cell with no energy expenditure via GLUT-1 (a transmembrane protein).
Embden-Meyerhof Pathway
Handles 90% of glucose utilization in the RBCs
Embden-Meyerhof Pathway
Non-oxidative, ANAEROBIC pathway that produces 2 MOLECULES of ATP
Embden-Meyerhof Pathway
ATP - used by the RBCs in the following ways:
- Maintenance of RBC shape & deformability
- Give energy for the active transport of cations
- Helps in modulating the amount o
2,3 - Bisphosphoglycerate (2, 3 BFG)
Old name of 2,3 - Bisphosphoglycerate (2, 3 BFG)?
2, 3 - Diphosphoglycerate (2, 3 DPG)
Old RBC becomes more ____________.
spherocytic
Most common enzyme deficiency of the EMP and is the most common form of HNSHA.
Pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency
Possible PBS findings or PK deficiency include?
Acanthocytes Burr calls
What is the meaning of HNSHA?
Hereditary Nonspherocytic Hemolytic Anemia
Recommended screening test for PK deficiency
PK fluorescent spot test
A screening test for PK deficiency
Autohemolysis test
Pattern of autohemolysis associated with PK deficiency?
Autohemolysis is greatly increased and glucose has no effect (but ATP corrects the hemolysis) [TYPE II].
Confirmatory test for PK deficiency?
Quantitative PK assay
Three alternate pathways that branch from the glycolytic pathway?
- Hexose Monophosphate Shunt (Aerobic Glycolysis)
- Methemoglobin Reductase Pathway/Shunt (MRP) (MRS)
- Rapoport-Luebering Shunt
Other names for Hexose Monophosphate Shunt [HMS] (Aerobic Glycolysis)?
Pentose Phosphate Pathway or Phosphogluconate Pathway
aerobically converts glucose to pentose and produces NADPH (reduced)
HMS
What is the meaning of NADPH?
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
Can also protect the HEME IRON but less effective than the MRP/MRS?
HMS