Plasma

Components Of Blood Blood is a specialized body fluid. It has five main components: plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Blood has many different functions, transporting oxygen and nutrients to the lungs and tissues, forming blood clots to prevent excess blood loss, carrying cells and antibodies that fight infection, bringing waste products to the kidneys and liver, which filter and clean the blood, and regulating body temperature. The blood that runs through the veins,…

The search for a form of power that is almost completely renewable and its energy output far exceeds the energy required to start and maintain the reaction has been a focus for many years. Energies that are present today that involve burning things to produce electricity, such as coal, produce tons of pollution at a worldwide level. One of the newest energy sources being researched is a nuclear fusion reactor. This type of power generation has the ability to satisfy this search for a sustainable…

Hemostasis is concerned with the clotting, or stopping, of blood. The medical term used to describe a blood clot is thrombus. In the blood, there is a liquid called plasma that makes up about half of the blood. Plasma contains proteins that help blood to clot, transport substances through the blood, and perform other functions. Blood plasma also contains glucose and other dissolved nutrients (WebMD, 2014). A blood clot can be beneficial or of great consequence to the body. A…

and be reabsorbed into the interstitial fluids. ADH secretion is regulated by both osmoreceptors in the hypothalamus and atrial stretch receptors, invoking a negative feedback loop to control osmolarity of the blood plasma as well as vascular volume. If there is a decrease in plasma osmolarity, the osmoreceptors in the hypothalamus will signal for a decrease the secretion of ADH form the posterior pituitary. This means there will be reduced permeability to water in the collecting duct, and less…

they can be reached by those body parts which are far away. Tiny fibres which are located in our muscles need a substantial amount of energy to be processed in order to carry out simple everyday duties such as lifting different mass objects. The plasma membrane which surrounds the cell is responsible for the exchanging…

Multiple myeloma is a form of cancer that is caused by the formation of abnormal plasma cells, which become malignant. Plasma cells arise from B lymphocytes that are formed in the bone marrow; specifically the lymph nodes and spleen. When a foreign particle enters the body the immune system triggers an immune response which triggers B cells to produce plasma cells. The plasma cells make immunoglobulins. Immunoglobulins are antibodies that attaches themself to the target antigen in order for…

From the time courses obtained, the following pharmacokinetic parameters were determined: maximum plasma concentration (Cmax), time to achieve this value (Tmax), area under the curve from zero time until 24.0 h after drug administration (AUC0-24), area under the curve from zero time to infinity (AUC0-∞), rate constant of the terminal phase of elimination…

metabolism, which is explored with two examples, alcohol and phenytoin. Both compounds rapidly permeate the hepatocyte and achieve distribution equilibrium, with unbound drug in the circulating plasma virtually equal to that in the hepatocyte, in which small changes in dose administration leads to large variations in plasma concentration at steady state. Drugs with saturable metabolism show non-linear pharmacokinetics. For some drugs, clearance is saturable, usually because the metabolizing…

polydipsia and unexplained weight loss) in addition to a random venous plasma glucose concentration >= 11.1 mmol/l OR a fasting plasma glucose concentration >= 7.0 mmol/l (whole blood >= 6.1 mmol/l) OR 2 hour plasma glucose concentration >= 11.1 mmol/l 2 hours after 75g anhydrous glucose in an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). With no symptoms diagnosis should not be based on a single glucose determination but requires confirmatory plasma venous determination. At least one…

myeloma. “Multiple myeloma is a widespread malignancy of plasma cells that may be associated with bone destruction, bone marrow failure, hypercalcemia,…