Path intro and WBC 1 Flashcards
how many units of blood do we have?
10 . . 1 unit=1 pint
How long do RBCs last?
Platelets?
Fresh frozen plasma?
42 days
5 days
1 year
what % of total blood is plasma?
cellular components?
55%
45%
When do Blood cell progenitors first appear? and where?
third week of emyryonic development in the yolk sack
Cells derived from the yolk sac are the source of what?
long lived tissue macrophages such as microglial cells in the brain and Kupffer cells in the liver
Where do definitive HSCs arise before they migrate to the liver during the third month
mesoderm of intraembryonic aorta/gonad/mesonephros region
What is the chief site of blood cell formation until shortly before birth?
liver
When do HSCs shift location and take residence in the bone marrow?
4th month
Until puberty, hematopoietically active marrow is found where?
it then becomes restricted to where?
throughout the skeleton
axial skeleton
a HSC loses it’s ability to self renew once it is past what stage?
multipotent progenitor
Processes that distort the marrow architecture, such as deposition of metastatic cancer or granulomatous disorders, can cause abnormal release of immature precursors into the peripheral blood, a finding referred to as what?
leukoerythroblastosis
What provides the best assessment of the morphology of hematopoietic cells?
Marrow aspirate smears
in normal adults, the ratio of fat cells to hematopoietic elements is about what?
- hypoplastic states? (aplastic anemia)
- hematopoietic tumors or in diseases characterized by compensatory hyperplasias (hemolytic anemias) and neoplastic proliferations such as leukemias?
- 1:1
- proportion of fat increased
- fat cells often disappear
What type of disorders often induce local marrow fibrosis?
How are the lesions best seen?
metastatic cancers and granulomatous diseases
-inaspirable so best seen in biopsies
Abnormally Low WBC count
leukopenia
reduction in number of neutrophils in blood
neutropenia
clinically significant reduction of neutrophils, making individuals susceptible to bacterial and fungal infections
Agranulocytosis
What is the most common cause of agranulocytosis?
drugs toxicity
Another name for a Natural Killer cell
Large granular lymphocyte
If we see extra medullary hematopoiesis after delivery, such as in the liver, what does this indicate?
a stressed infant
Where do we normally get Bone marrow from an Adult?
Pediatrics?
PSIS
sternum
What are the two cells that RESIDE in the peripheral blood?
where do leukocytes (monocytes, Granulocytes, and lymphocytes) reside?
Why are they seen in peripheral blood?
- Platelets and RBCs
- Tissue
- Peripheral blood is a transport medium
lifespan of circulating platelets if no significant clotting occurs
7-10 days
Senescent platelets are eliminated how?
phagocytosis in the spleen
Are nucleated red cells normal in peripheral blood?
No
At a Hb level about what, is EPO released at a constant rate?
About 10
As Hemoglobin levels fall below 10, plasma EPO does what?
increases LOGARITHMAICALLY in response to increasing severity of anemia
A peripheral blood “immature” RBC
reticulocyte
What % of red cell population should reticulocytes be
2%
describe a reticulocyte compared to a mature RBC
- contain remnant endoplasmic reticulum and ribosomes (rough ER) that forms a reticulum within the cytoplasm
- 20-30% larger than mature RBC
- circulate for 2-3 days before all remnants of ribosomal endoplasmic structures ae extruded
What may be used to possibly determine if we have an increase reticulocyte count?
what condition may possibly show this?
- RDW: red cell distribution Width
- Anemias where RBCs are being produced
once a monocyte exits the intravascular space, it differentiates into what?
macrophage
Meloblast lineage leads to what cells
granulocytes