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