Module 9 ML- 5 Flashcards
What percent of the total circulating blood is in the capillaries
5%
What do all the other components of the system do?
serve the overall function of getting adequate blood flow to the capillaries
What is the capillary structure?
8 um diameter with thin wall and various pore sizes
What is a pore within a capillary
gaps between the endothelial cells
What does a single layer of endothlial cells do
maximize the exchange with RBCs
Where do capillaries sit
between arterioles and venules
Do capillaries have smooth muscle
no
Precapillary sphincter
more local of the local controls, blood passes through here before capillaries
Metarteriole
small amount of smooth muslce; the blood goes from the arteries from metarteriole into venule and never goes into the capillary bed
True or false;velcoity is inversely related to cross sectional areas
true
what passes through the endothelial cells
lipid soluble
What passes through the pores
small water soluble substances
What cannot cross the capillary wall
plasma proteins
How do proteins and large solutes move?
eno and exo
What provides the force of diffusion
concentration gradients