Exam 3: Blood Flashcards
What are the functions of blood?
Transportation
- Gases, nutrients, hormones, waste products
Regulation
- pH, body temperature, osmotic pressure, fluid balance
Protection
- Clotting, white blood cells, proteins
What is blood
Connective tissue
Which percentage of blood is made up of plasma?
55%
Which percentage of blood is made up of the buffy coat?
1%
Which percentage of blood is made up of Erythrocytes?
44%
What are the formed elements in the blood?
Red blood cells
White Blood cells
Platelets
The regulation of Red blood cells and platelets in circulation is
controlled by a negative feedback system
Increase of specific types of white blood cells is
based on response to invading pathogens or foreign antigens
Hemopiesis or Hematopoiesis
– The continual production of formed elements
– Red bone marrow primary site
– Hemocytoblasts
Hematopoietic growth factors regulate differentiation and proliferation
Hemocytoblasts
Pluripotent stem cells have the ability to develop
into many different types of cells
Specific type of cell that develops is determined by growth factors around the stem cells
Erythrocyte
– Small, flexible formed elements
– Commonly referred to as red blood cells – Lack nucleus and cellular organelles
– Have biconcave disc structure
– Plasma membrane with enclosed hemoglobin molecules
– Glycolipids in plasma membrane responsible for ABO and Rh blood groups
– Transport oxygen and carbon dioxide between tissues and lungs
• Erythrocytes
Hemoglobin
– Red-pigmented protein
– Transports oxygen and carbon dioxide
• Oxyhemoglobin (bound to oxygen)
- Deoxyhemoglobin (not bound to oxygen)
- Carbaminohemoglobin (carbon dioxide bound to amino group)
How many heme groups is hemoglobin composed of?
4
How many alpha and beta chains does hemogloibin contain?
2 alpha chains
2 beta chains
How many oxygen molecules can each hemoglobin bind?
Is this a weak or strong bond, what does the bond allow for in the lungs and body tissues?
4 oxygen molecules
fairly weak bond
allows for rapid attachment in lungs and rapid detatchment in body tissues
Carbon dioxide binding to hemoglobin
binding is fairly weak
trasport molecule from body tissues to lungs
Type A
erythrocytes with surface antigen A
Type B
erythrocytes with surface antigen B
Type AB
erythrocytes with both antigens
Type O
erythrocytes with neither antigen
Agglutination
Person gets a type of blood that contains antibodies for their blood, this leads to clumps of red blood cells, this can block vessels and prevent normal circulation
Hemolysis
rupture of erythrocytes, organ damage
Aggulation
No Aggulation