Topic 8 - Blood Flashcards
Vasopressin is released from where
Posterior Pituitary lobe
Common myeloid + lymphoid progenitor
multipotential haemopoietic stem cell
megakaryocyte
can be found where?
Bone marrow
serum =
Plasma - clotting factors
Plasma =
Serum + clotting factors + clotting inhibitors
What type of antigen is Rhesus
Ion channel antigen
What type of Rhesus expression is common?
Rh+
Treatment for rhesus
Anti-Rh Y globin
PC / PS / AT inhibitor deficiences leads to what?
Hypercoagulability = thrombosis
Burkitts lymphoma is translocation of what
what chromosome numbers?
c-MYC with IgH
8 –> 14
HTLV-1 is found in what cancer?
Leukaemia
Leukaemia has what accumulation?
WBC caused by BM failure
Hodgkin Lymphoma is characterised by what type of cells?
What are their structures?
What do they originate from?
Reed Sternberg Cells
Bilobed/multinucleated
Originates from B cells
Bleeding peptic ulcer + normocytic anaemia can results in what sort of erythrocyte loss? What can this lead to?
Chronic Erythrocyte loss
Anaemia
EPO causes the transition of what?
CFU –> BFU-E = RBC
What cell releases EPO
Interstitial fibroblasts
Name 4 things that stimulates Erythropoiesis
Androgens
Thyroxine
Growth hormone
Corticosteroids
Thpo stimulates what formation
CFU = Megakaryocytes = platelets
IDA can lead to what sort of anaemia?
Microcytic anaemia
Anisocytosis =
Pokiliocytosis +
variation in size
variation in shape
Megaloblastic anaemia is a result from what?
What does it lead to
Deficiency in B12 / folate
Macrocytic anaemia
Life span of Haemolytic anaemia RBC
20 days
Immune induced HA (3)
Haemolytic syndrome of newborn
Autoantibodies
complement
Mutation in sickle cell is caused by what mutation?
Hb b globin mutation
What is produced in sickle cell?
how does this distort RBC
glu –> Valine
Polymerisation of Hb = distortion
Defects in a/b chains lead to what?
Thalassaemia
What sort of anaemia is present with Thalassaemia
microcytic anaemia
Primary response of haemostatic strategies include what (3)
Platelets // Endothelial // Fibriniogen
Secondary response of haemostatic strategies include what (3)
circulating enzymes // Platelet // fibrin
life span of platelets
7-10 days
What sort of granule types are present in platelets
Dense
alpha
Name the adhesion changing shape of platelet order
Disc shape
Rolling ball
Hemisphere shape
spreading platelet
Which shape leads to reversible adhesion?
Firm - Hemisphere shape
Which shape leads to irreverisble adhesion?
Spreading platelet
Dense granules contain what (4)
ADP / ATP / Serotonin / Ca2+
Alpha graunles contain what (4)
Platelet Factor 4 (hep.antago)
PAI-1 (plasminogen activator inhibitor)
Platelet GF
Chemokines
What is the role of dense granules
Promotes aggregation