Hemostasis Flashcards
What are the most abundant integral proteins and what is an important characteristic?
(1) Glycophorins, (2) which contain sialic acid that gives the cell surface a negative charge to repel other RBCs
What are band 3 proteins?
(1) Anion transporters that are (2) associated with ABO and Rh antigens
What are four proteins that form the cytoskeleton?
(1) Spectrin (2) Ankyrin (3) Actin (4) Band 4.1/4.2
How does the RBC generate ATP?
Embden-Myerhoff Pathway (EMP)
Which reactions does the Embden-Myerhoff Pathway allow to occur?
(1) Hexose monophosphate pathway - detoxify oxidants
(2) Methemoglobin reductase pathway - reduce oxidized Hb
(3) Rapoport-Leubering pathway - generates 2,3-BPG to promote release of oxygen from hemoglobin
What chains comprise HbF, HbA, and HbA2?
HbF - α2γ2 (up to 90% at birth) HbA - α2β2 (95% after 2 years of age) HbA2 - α2δ2 (
Where are the two largest stores of iron in the body?
(1) Hemoglobin and (2) ferritin
What receptor determines the amount of iron entering a cell?
Transferrin receptor (TfR)
What are the four steps in primary hemostasis?
(1) Transient vasoconstriction mediated by (a) neural stimulation and (b) endothelin release from endothelial cells (2) Von Willebrand factor attaches to exposed collagen at site of injury and platelets bind to VWF by GPIb receptor (3) Attached platelets degranulate, releasing (a) ADP, which promotes exposure of GPIIb/IIIa receptor and (b) thromboxane A2 synthesized by platelet cyclooxygenase (COX), promoting platelet aggregation (4) Platelets aggregate via GPIIb/IIIa, using fibrinogen as a linker molecule
Where is Von Willebrand factor found?
(1) Plasma (2) α-granules of platelets (3) Weibel-Palade bodies in endothelial cells
What cleaves Von Willebrand factor multimer?
ADAMTS-13
What four things does Von Willebrand factor bind?
(1) Collagen (2) GPIb (3) GPIIb/IIIa (mediates platelet aggregation) (4) Factor VIII (protects F8 from proteolysis)
Which clotting factors are dependent on vitamin K?
Factors II, VII, IX, X
What are four major inhibitors of coagulation?
(1) Antithrombin - inhibits IIa, IXa, Xa, XIa (2) Activated protein C - inactivates Va and VIIIa (3) Protein Z-dependent protease inhibitor - inhibits Xa (4) Tissue factor pathway inhibitor - Binds Xa and prevents further activation by TF-VIIa
What causes thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura?
Decreased ADAMTS13, leading to microthrombi
What are the activators of fibrinolysis?
(1) Tissue plasminogen activator (TPA) (2) Urokinase plasminogen activator (UPA)
What inhibits plasmin?
α2-antiplasmin - binds free plasmin to prevent digestion of coagulation factors
Where does D-dimer come from?
(1) Lysis of fibrin, (2)not fibrinogen by (3) plasmin Elevated in DIC, not in plasmin overactivity (because fibrinogen degraded)
What inhibits TPA and UPA?
Plasminogen activator inhibitor 1
What are PT, APPT, and TCT?
(1) PT - prothrombin time (extrinsic pathway) (2) APPT Activated partial thromboplastin time (intrinsic pathway) (3) Thrombin clotting time (fibrinogen to fibrin)
When is PT prolonged?
When factors I, II, V, X, or VII are deficient
When is APPT prolonged?
When factors I, II, V, X, VIII, IX, XI, or XII are deficient
When is TCT prolonged?
Deficiency of factor I (fibrinogen)
Which coagulation factors cause no bleeding if deficient?
(1) Factor XII (2) Prekalikrein (PK) (3) High molecular weight kininogen (HK)