What does the Blood include?
Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Platelets, Plasma
Alternate name for RBC + function
erythrocytes
- transports oxygen
Red Blood Cell
EveRY THROb of the heart, the blood cells moves around several CYTES!
Really try to imagine the blood moving to all the organs at every site.
2 WBCs name
lymphocytes, phagocytes
lymphocytes funct
produces antibodies
LYMPHOCYTES DO NOT SIGNAL PHAGOCYTES TO PERFORM PHAGOCYTOSIS
phagocytes funct
phagocytosis: engulf, ingest, digest foreign bodies
antibodies funct
phagocytes struct
(nucleus, cytoplasm)
lobed nucleus
granular cytoplasm
special = lobely, granular
lymphocytes struct
(nucleus, cytoplasm)
large spherical nucleus
clear cytoplasm
Lymphocytes more normal. So their structure is also more normal.
They are large bcoz’ large lymph nodes!
platelets function
involved, blood clotting
Platelets struct
membrane bound
cell fragments
Describe process, blood clotting
Does blood clotting happen in internal or external wounds?
Both
2 Waste Products that Plasma Transports
4 Non Waste Products that Plasma Transports (All new stuff, don’t say something like vitamins, I want the new stuff!)
*The professional version of throbbingly-happy happiness!
We know it as prothrombin, the unactivated, soluble form of thrombin, activated via thrombo-kinetic (thrombokinase) to become non pro thrombin (thrombin). Awe man!
*Fiber-in-ogen! The thing that makes Fiber-in threads. Remember its fiber-in threads, not fiber-out threads. And fiber-in threads traps the helpless red blood cells for blood clotting.
What does a blood clot do?
Prevents
further loss of blood
entry of pathogens, bloodstream
Plasma struct
kinda like pee…
Plasma funct
contains transports red blood cells, dissolved substances
2 Dissolved substances that are transported by plasma (useful) (this is the old stuff)
vitamins, mineral salts
no nutrients.
nutrients includes fatty acids which literally cannot be dissolved
A blood group antigen and antibody produced
A antigen -> blood cell
anti-B antibody -> blood plasma
B blood group antigen and antibody produced
B antigen -> blood cell
anti-A antibody -> blood plasma
Universal Blood DOnOr type
Blood type O
has no antigens
Anti-A, B antibodies in blood plasma
Universal Blood receiver type
Blood type AB
Has both A, B antigens
No antibodies
Artery vs Vein vs Capillary carrying blood directions
Artery: carry, blood, away, from, heart
Vein: carry, blood, back, to, heart
Capillary: carry, blood, from, artery, to, vein
Small Artery
Small Vein
Are they far away from the heart?
Arterioles
Venules
FYI
Aka many capillaries combine to become a venule