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The cardiovascular system consist of?

Blood


Heart


Blood vessels

Blood is made of?

Liquid connective tissue that consists of cells and cell fragments surrounded by a liquid extracellular Matrix called blood plasma.

Blood transports what?

Oxygen


Carbon dioxide


Nutrients


Waste


Hormones

Blood helps regulate what?

PH balance


Body temperature


Water content of cells

Blood provides protection name two.

Protection through clotting and by combating toxins and microbes.

Name some physical characteristics of blood.

Viscosity is greater than that of water a normal temperature is 38 degrees Celsius or 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit and the pH is said to be alkaline 7.35 to 7.45.

How many liters of blood does the human body have circulating in the body?

4-6 liters in adults

Hematocrit

The percentage of total blood volume occupied by red blood cells.

Blood plasma consist of mostly?

Water

What Principle solutes are found in blood plasma?

Albumin ,globulins fibrinogen, nutrients , vitamins hormones, respiratory gases like oxygen and carbon dioxide, electrolytes and waste products.

Name the formed elements found in blood.

Red blood cells (erythrocytes)


White blood cells (leukocytes)


Platelets

Hemopoiesis

The formation of blood cells from hemopoiesis stem cells in red bone marrow.

Myeloid stem cells

Form red blood cells platelets granulocytes and monocytes.

Lymphoid stem cells

Give rise to lymphocytes

Differentiation

The development of a cell from an unspecialized state to a specialized state.

Mature red blood cells are ------ discs that lack---- and contain------.

Bioconcave, nucleus, hemoglobin.

The function of hemoglobin in red blood cells is to?

Oxygen and some carbon dioxide

Red blood cells production is called?

Erythropoiesis

Erythropoiesis occurs in the?

Red bone marrow of certain bones is stimulated by hypoxia which stimulates the release of erythropoietin by the kidneys

White blood cells have a -------.

Nucleus

Name two principal types of white blood cells.

Granulocytes


Agranulocytes

Name three granulocytes

Neutrophils


Basophils


Eosinphils

Name two agranulocytes

Lymphocytes


Monocytes

The general function of white blood cells is to?


Combat inflammation and infection neutrophils and macrophages do so through phagocytosis.

Eosinphils

Combat the effects of histamine in allergic reactions. Destroy antigen-antibody complexes and combat parasitic worms.

Basophils

Liberate Heparin, histamine, and serotonin in allergic reactions that intensify the inflammatory response.

B lymphocytes

Produce antibodies

T lymphocytes

Destroy foreign Invaders directly.

Natural killer cells

Attack infectious microbes and tumor cells.

Platelets

Dish shaped cell fragments that splinter from megakaryocytes.

Platelets help stop...?

Blood loss from damaged blood vessels by forming a platelet plug.

Hemostasis

The stoppage of bleeding

Name three steps of hemostasis

Vascular spasm platelet plug formation and blood clotting

Coagulation

Blood clotting

A network of insoluble protein fibers in which formed elements of blood are trapped is called.

A blood clot

The chemicals involved in clotting are known as?

Coagulation factors.

Three stages of the blood clotting cascade.

Formation of prothrombinace.


Conversion of prothrombin into thrombin.


Conversion of soluble fibrinogen into insoluble fibrin.


Thrombosis

Clotting in an unbroken blood vessel

Embolus

A thrombus that moves from its site of origin.

Name the four main blood types

A, B, AB, O

Name two blood groups

ABO, AND Rh group.

ABO and Rh blood groups are genetically determined and based on?

Antigen antibody responses

In the ABO group the presence or absence of-------- antigens on the surface of red blood cells determines blood type.

A&B

Hemolytic disease

A disease of a newborn when an Rh- mother is pregnant with an RH + fetus

Hematocrit

The percentage of red blood cells in the total volume of blood.

Erythropoiesis

Production of red blood cells

Anemia

Low red blood cells, less hemoglobin.

Polycythemia

Abnormally high red blood cells, makes blood harder to pump. Increase pressure, stroke risk.

Major histocompatability antigen

MHC, cell identity marker for individuals.

Phagocytosis

Process of ingesting bacteria and disposing of dead matter.



Carried out by neutrophils and macrophages

Plasma proteins 3

Albumin


Globulin


Fibrinogen

Albumin

Small, but most numerous. Function to maintain osmotic pressure.

Globulins

Large, produce immunoglobulins (antibodies) help fight infection.

Fibrinogen

Large function during blood clotting.

Platelets other name

Thrombocytes

Erythropoiesis

Development of red blood cells.

Carbonic anhydrase

Enzyme that speeds up the reaction that transports carbon dioxide.... via bicarbonate ions.

Nitric oxide NO

Hormone, produced by cells lining vessels, bind to hemoglobin, then cause vasodilation, increasing blood vessel diameter.

Viagra

Erythropoiesis

Production of RBC, first proerythroblast, then lose nucleus = reticulocyte, then mature red blood cells.

Name 4 WBC

Eosinphils


Basophils


Lymphocytes


Momocytes


Eosinphils

Release enzymes involved in inflammation during allergic reactions. Parasites

Basophils

Release substances histamine, that intensify inflammatory response involved in allergic reactions.


Lymphocytes

T cells, B cells, NK cells.

Leukocytosis

Increase in WBC, can be normal.

Leukopenia

Low WBCs

Leukaemia

Cancer in red bone marrow.

Thrombocytopenia

Low platelets

Thrombocytosois

High platelets.

Hemostasis

A series of events that occur to stop bleeding. Vascular spasm, platelet plug formation, and blood clotting.

Vascular spasm

Occurs when arteries or arterioles are damaged it causes vasoconstriction which reduces blood loss long enough for blood clotting mechanisms to start taking action.

Platelet plug formation name three main steps.

Platelet adhesion


Platelet release reaction


Platelet aggregation

Platelet adhesion

First step of platelet plug formation, platelets make contact and stick two parts of the damaged blood vessel.

Platelet release reaction

Second step in platelet plug formation, platelets adhere then they become active. Platelets then release vesicle contents.

Vesicle contents, ADP, THROMBOXANE A2, SEROTONIN.

Platelet aggregation

Third step in platelet plug formation, newly arriving platelets stick to the original ones eventually this leads to the platelet plug a large accumulation of platelets.

Fibrin threads

The platelet plug is reinforced by fibrin threads.

extrinsic and intrinsic pathways lead to?

Prothrombinace formation

Extrinsic pathway

Involves fewer steps and can occur faster. usually revolves around trauma and severe injuries. requires outside tissue damage.

Intrinsic pathway

More complex and it's a slower process, activators are either in contact with blood or contained within blood.

Common pathway

Common pathway starts after intrinsic or extrinsic pathways produce Prothrombinace.

Common pathway

During the common pathway prothrombinase and calcium is converted from prothrombin to thrombin and fibrogen to fibrin.

Clot retraction

Tightening of the fibrin clot, pools edges of the damaged vessel closer together.

Vitamin-k

Essential for normal blood clotting, produced by bacteria in the large intestines, stored in the liver. Involved in the synthesis of 4 clotting factors.