Histo - Blood Flashcards
What are the different cells found in blood?
Agranulacytes:
- Monocytes
- Lymphocytes
Granulacytes:
- Basophils
- Neutrolphils
- Eosinophils
Eryrthrocytes:
- RBC
Other:
- Platelets
What is blood made of?
Basics:
-
Blood = connective tissue
- CT = cells + extracellular matrix
- Blood cells
- Plasma
- Fluid
- Contain ECM proteins
- Contaiin other proteins (carried in blood)
What are the 3 formed elements of blood?
-
Erythrocytes (RBCs)
- Fxn: oxygen + CO2 transport
-
Leukocytes (WBCs)
- Fxn: protection from infection + immune response
- granulocytes
- agranulocytes
- Fxn: protection from infection + immune response
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Thrombocytes (Platelets)
- Fxn: clot formation
- pieces from larger cell (megakaryocyte)
- Fxn: clot formation
What are the major plasma proteins?
- Albumin
- Globulins
- Immunoglobulins (Antibodies)
-
Fibrinogen
- and other factors involved in clotting
-
Complement proteins
- involved w/ inflammation & immune response
What are the majority of cells in this image?
Erythrocytes (RBCs)
Basics:
- Develop in bone marrow
- regulated by erythropoietin (kidney)
- Anucleated, bi-concave disks
- Life span = 60 - 120 days
- Breakdown = spleen
Function:
- Hemoglobin
- Transports O2 –> tissues
- Transports CO2 –> to lungs
Formation:
-
Fetal = Liver
- can be reactivated during disease processes
-
Neonatal/Adult = Bone Marrow
- Red = due to abundance of RBC forming
- Yellow = due to presence of fat
What is highlighted in this image?
Thrombocytes (Platelets)
Basics:
- Anucleated cell fragments
- Derived from megakaryocytes which are:
- foamy
- multisegmented nuclei (polyploid)
- undergo endomitosis (DNA replication w/o cell division)
Function:
- Important for clot formation
- platelet aggregation = start of clot formation
- trapped in fibrin meshwork
- clot stops flow of blood for wound repair
Formation:
- From megakaryocytes
- under regulation of thrombopoietin
- plasma membrane invaginates to form open canalicular system
- central region = granulomere (organelles)
- periphery = hyalomere (MT & microfilaments)
What is happening in this image?
Clot formation
(platelets trapped in fibrin meshwork)
What are the 3 types of granulocytes?
Granulocytes
- Eosinophils
- bi-lobed
- pink granules
- Neutrophils
- multi-lobed
- Basophils
- bi-lobed
- blue granules
These fall under the category of Leukocytes (WBCs)
What type of cell is in this image?
Neutrophils
Basics:
- Neutral granules
- Multi-lobed nucleus
- AKA:
- polymorphonuclear leukocytes
- Polys
- PMNs
- Segs
Function:
- Phagocytose bacteria (via opsonization)
- kill via reactive oxygen species
Granules:
-
Azurophilic (primary) granules: lysosomes
- Myeloperoxidase
- Lysozyme
- Defensins
-
Specific (secondary) granules: visible
- Collagenases
- Bactericidal proteins
- Inflammatory mediators
What is this?
Neutrophil
What type of cell is in this image?
Eosinophils
Basics:
- Eosinophilic (pink granules)
- Bilobed nucleus
Function:
- Fragmentation of parasites
- Can trigger asthma
Granules:
-
Azurophilic granules
- lysosomes
-
Specific granules
- Major basic protein (core) – HAMBURGERS
- Eosinophilic peroxidase
- Inflammatory mediators
What is this cell?
Eosinophil
What cell is in this image?
Basophils
Basics:
- Basophilic (blue) granules
- Bi- or Multi-lobed nucleus
Function:
- Allergic reactions
- Parasitic infections
- immediate = asthma
- delayed = allergic skin reaction
Granules:
- Azurophilic granules
- lysosomes
- Specific granules
- Heparin
- anticoagulant
- Histamine
- increases the permeability of the capillaries to white blood cells and some proteins
- allow them to engage pathogens in the infected tissues
- Inflammatory mediators
- Heparin
Note:
- Similar to Mast cells
- Rare in normal blood smear
What is this cell?
Basophil
What are the 2 types of Agranulocytes?
Agranulocytes
- Monocytes
- Largest WBCs
- Differentiate into macrphages in tissue
- Lymphocytes
- Immune response
- B/T cells + Natural killer cells
Note:
- Both are types of leukocytes (WBCs)
- Both have NO granules