Week 7-8 Study Guide Flashcards
Blood is composed of
- Plasma. 55%
- Formed elements
- Erythrocytes RBCs. 45%
- Leukocytes - WBCs. bottom 2 = 1%
- Platelets (cell fragments) (thrombicytes- clotting)
What is Hematocrit?
The percentage of Blood Volume that is RBCs
Normal range for:
Males = 47%
Females = 42%
+- 5 %
Formed Elements
RBCs
WBCs
Platelets
Characteristics of Blood
- Temp = 38 degrees celsius
- PH = 7.35-7.45
- Volume
-males = 5-6 L
-females = 4-5 L
Functions of Blood
- Delivery - oxygen nutrients
- Removal - metabolic waste CO2
- Transport (hormone)
- Regulation (temp - buffer = pH)
water has high heat capacity, pH regulation - Protection (platelets, WBCs)
immune function
blood clotting
Plasma = 90% water
Proteins mostly produced by the liver (solutes)
1. 60% Albumin (osm pressure)
2. 36% globulins (immunity)
3. 4% fibrinogen (clotting)
Plasma also holds
- Nitrogenous waste of metabolism - lactic acid, urea, creatinine
- Nutrients (glucose, CH, AA, Lipids,
- Electrolytes - Na+, K+, Ca2+, CL-, HCO3- (present in Intracellular fluid
- Respiratory gases - O2 & CO2
- Hormones
Formed Elements
- Only WBCs are complete cells
- RBCs no organelles
- Platelets = cell fragments (thrombocytes)
- most formed elements survive days - short-lived
- Most blood cells are made in bone marrow and amitotic (cannot repair or replace themselves)
Characteristics of Erythrocytes (RBCs)
- Biconcave (increased SA relative to Volume)
- anucleate (no nucleus)
- no organelles
- Hemoglobin
They do need mitochondria but make it aneorobically
Hemoglobin contains
4 proteins, 4 heme (iron) pigments (red)
Four O2 to every Hb
~280 million hB in one cell
~33% of cells weight
RBC structure and function
Biconcave shape - SA to V ratio
No Mitochondria - make ATP anaerobically
No self-repair - live ~120 days
Oxyhemoglobin
When oxygen binds to hemoglobin it is called oxyhemoglobin
Ruby Red (high O2)
Lungs - O2 gets picked up
Arteries goes all through the system until oxygen gets to delivered to the tissues
Then returns to heart
Deoxyhemoglobin
Blood has delivered oxygen
Veins -
Color is dark red (low O2)
Blood returns from capillaries of tissues
Back to the heart
Then pumped to the lungs
Carbaminohemoglobin
What happens when Carbon dioxide binds to hemoglobin
Carries 20% of Carbin dioxide in blood.
Erythropoiesis
Formation of RBCs
Happens in the bone marrow
Kidney monitors change in oxygen delivery
- Low O2 –>
- kidney release enzyme POTEIN –>
- Renal erythropoietin factor (REF) (protein gets into the blood)
- REF converts plasma proteins into a hormone called erythropoietin will go to the bone marrow to stimulate –>
- RBC production
Carbon Monoxide - deadly
- Oxygen and Carbon dioxide combine to hemoglobin
- Carbon monoxide binds 200x more tightly, with greater affinity to hemoglobin than oxygen does
- Stronger and no smell
Oxygen binds and unbinds
Carbon monoxide binds and will not let go
Leukocytes make up how much of total blood volume?
< 1%
Function of Leukocytes
- Diapedesis - cell crawling - movement
Phagocytosis - cellular eating