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Define Buffy coat |
Between Red blood cells and plasma
Consist of white blood cells |
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What is plasma |
Specialized connective tissue
Blood cells are suspended in it
90% water |
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Three main types of protein? |
Albumin Globulin Fibrinogen |
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Albumin |
Keeps water from diffusing out of the capillaries
Allows water to diffuse into vessels |
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Globulins |
Transports lipids iron and copper
Transports things that don't like water |
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Fibrinogen |
Stops bleeding by forming blood clots |
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Eurothrocytes |
Transports o2 and co2 |
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Hematocrit |
Blood fraction
Percent of blood volume in RBC
47+ or - 5 Male 42 + or - 5 Female |
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granulocytes |
Neutrophil Eosinophils Basophil |
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Neutrophil |
Destroys bacteria through phagocytosis |
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Eosinophils |
Turn off allergic responses
Destroy parasites larger than bacteria |
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Basophils |
Release histomine |
Inflammation |
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Agranulocytes |
Lymphocytes Monocytes |
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Monocytes |
Macrophage - like kupfer cells in liver |
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Biconcave shape of RBC |
Increase surface area
Increased exchange of gases o2 and co2
Increases flexibility |
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What do RBC mostly consist of? |
97% is hemoglobin (protein that likes oxygen) |
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RBC lifespan |
120 day lifespan
recycled by spleen |
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Diapedesis |
WBC can independently move from blood to connective tissue |
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Places contain red bone marrow manufacturing bone cells |
Proximal epiphysis of humerus and femur
Axial center skeleton
Appendicular girdles Pelvic and pectoral girdle |
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Platelets / thrombocytes |
Clotting cells
Disc shaped plasma membrane
Plug tears and blood vessels |
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Hematopoiesis |
Formation of blood
In the red bone marrow |
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