Exam 2: Lecture 22 Flashcards
What refers to the functions of the smallest blood vessles and allows for exchange of nutrients, waste and fluid exchange
Microcirculation types of capillaries
What type of capillaries are the most common form with interendothelial junctions (skeletal muscle). However these clefts are absent in the blood brain barrier whose capillaries have narrow tight junctions
Continuous capillary
What type of capillaries have endothelial cells that are thin and perforated with fenestrations. These capillaries most often surrounded epithelial (small intestine, exocrine glands)
Fenestrated capillary
What type of capillary in addition to fenestrae, these capillaries have large gaps. Discontinuous capillaries are found in sinusoids (liver)
Discontinuous capillaries
How does exchange of solutes and gases move across the capillaries
simple diffusion
How do lipid soluble substances such as O2 and CO2 move across the capillaries
diffusion
How do water soluble soultes such as H2O, AA, glucose, etc. move across the capillaries
They can not cross endothelial cells membranes
How do proteins move across capillary walls
Proteins are too large to cross the capillaries, so they are retained in the vasculature compartment
What is the most important mechanism for fluid transfer
Osmosis
Can you hold majority of blood in your interstitium?
Yes!
- you can blood out and die into your intersitial and never lose a drop of blood
What does Jv stand for in capillary fluid flux
fluid movement
what does Kf stand for in capillary fluid flux
hydraulic conductance
what does Pc stand for in capillary fluid flux
capillary hydrostatic pressure
- favors filtration
What does Pi stand for in capillary fluid flux
interstitial hydrostatic pressure
- opposes fltration
What does Pie c stand for in capillary fluid flux
capillary oncotic pressure