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| What kind of tissue is blood? |
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| specialized fluid connective tissue |
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| What are the 3 functions of blood? |
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- distributes nutrients, oxygen, and hormones
- carries metabolic wastes to the kidneys for excretion
- transports specialized cells that defend peripheral tissues from infection and diseases-immune system conduct
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| What are the 2 components of blood? |
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- plasma 55% the liquid matrix of blood
- 92% water
- dissolved proteins
- formed elements
- red blood cells
- white blood cells
- platelets
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| What is the function of RBCs? |
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| transport oxygen and carbon dioxide |
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| What is the function of WBCs? |
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| components of the immune system |
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| What is the function of platelets? |
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| essential for blood clotting |
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| What are the 3 major classes of plasma proteins? |
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- albunins
- globulins
- fibrinogen
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- 60% of plasma proteins
- transport of fatty acids, steroid hormones, cations, biliruben, and drugs and other substances
- smallest of plasma proteins
- regulates colloidal osmotic pressure
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- approximately 35% of plasma proteins
- antibodies
- immunoglobulins/transport globulins
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ANTIBODIES
attach foreign pathogens and proteins |
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- 4 percent of plasma proteins
- basic framework for blood clot
- clot reaction: platelets bound together by fibrinogen
- largest of the plasma proteins
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- 45% of blood volume
- transport oxygen and CO2 in bloodstream
- concave in shape
- greater surface area for gas transport, makes it flexible for squeezing through capillaries
- 120 day life span
- no nucleus or organelles
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value indicates the percentage of whole blood minus the plasma
NORMAL FOR MEN: approx 46
NORMAL FOR WOMEN: approx 42 |
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- hemoglobin molecules account for more than 95% of the erythrocytes proteins
- transport oxygen and carbon dioxide
- red pigment
- oxygenated hemoglobin is bright red
- deoxygenated hemoglobin has a deep red color
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| What are the 4 blood types and what antigens does each have? |
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Type A: has antigen A
Type B: has antigen B
Type AB: has both
Type O: has neither |
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| What is the function of white blood cells? |
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- immune defense
- remove toxins & wastes & abnormal or damaged cells
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- larger than RBC
- very short life span
- cross tunica areas of vessels into tissues
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| when white blood cells move from capillaries into tissues |
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| What are the 2 major classes of WBCs? |
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- granular leukocytes (granulocytes)
- agranular leukocytes (agranulocytes)
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What are the 3 tyoes of granulocytes?
"Nice Eyes Baby" |
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- neutrophils 50-70%
- eosinophils 2-4%
- basophils 1%
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- phagocytosis specialists
- chemical release after death
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- release enzymes to reduce inflammation
- cytoxic to parasites
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- release histamine
- increase permeability
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| What are the 2 types of agranular leukocytes? |
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- largest WBC
- account for 2-8 percent of the wbc population
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- usually slightly larger than RBCs
- acount for 20-30 percent of the WBC population
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| What are the 3 types of lymphocytes? |
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Definition
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| enter peripheral tissues and attack foreign cells directly |
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| differentiate into plasma cells that secrete antibodies that attack foreign cells or proteins in distant portions of the body |
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| immune surveillance, destruction of abnormal tissue cells; important in preventing cancer |
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| the process of blood cell formation |
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| formation of erythrocytes |
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RED BONE MARROW
the primary site of blood cell formation in the adult |
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| production of white blood cells |
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- boosting number of red blood cells
- boost hematocrit for 6 to 24 weeks
- side effects
- abnormally high RBCs
- high viscous blood
- strain heart/heart failure
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