Tissue Fluid

Question 1

Where is the tissue fluid?

Answer 1

Around the cells and outside the capillary’s

Question 2

What are things you want to leave the blood and to enter cells?

Answer 2

Ions
Carbs
Fats
Proteins
Amino acids
Water
O2

Question 3

What are things you want to stay in the blood?

Answer 3

Platelets
Plasma
RBC
WBC
Plasma proteins

Question 4

What determines what can leave or exit the capillary’s?

Answer 4

Size
Pressure

Question 5

Describe how things move in and out of capillary’s?

Answer 5

Bloods comes through arteriole and into capillary’s with high hydrostatic pressure
Due to high pressure things move out of capillary’s into cells
Things like water move back into deoxygenated blood as it has low hydrostatic pressure
Water brings bad stuff with it back into blood via all types of diffusion to bring it to be broken down

Question 6

Where does excess tissue fluid go?

Answer 6

To the lymph to the lymphatic system where it returns to the blood