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B & I - Blood Components Flashcards

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What is the source of all haemopoietic stem cells?

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Bone Marrow

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What does blood provide which is required for normal cell function?

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Blood provides a one-way pressurized system for the transport of oxygen, proteins, glucose, lipids and essential ions all required for normal cell function.

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What is arterial pressure maintained by?

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Elastic vessel walls that contain an abundance of smooth muscle.

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Why is venous pressure lower than arterial pressure?

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Because veins are not elastic; one-way valves are required to prevent backflow.

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Why must blood volume be maintained?

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To retain pressure

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If you lose too much blood, the tissue is starved of?

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O2

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What is high blood pressure (hypertension) caused by?

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A narrowing or hardening of the arteries reducing flow and resulting in unwanted coagulation.

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What is oxygen carried by?

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haemoglobin, the major protein in RBC

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What does inhaled cyanide do?

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stops heart muscle activity within seconds

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What colour is normal oxygenated blood?

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Bright Red

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What colour is venous blood?

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Dark Red

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What colour is blood in someone with carbon monoxide poisoning?

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Cherry Red

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What colour is blood in someone with cyanide poisoning?

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pink

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Volume and flow in large vessels

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high volume and low flow

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Volume and flow in small vessels

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low volume and high flow

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What does a vast network of tiny capillaries require?

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high pressures to force blood through

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What do muscular arteries and valves provide?

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pressurized directional flow from lungs to tissue and organs

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What two things does blood pressure ensure?

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  1. Even and efficient flow through the small capillaries.

2. Low enough to prevent capillary leakage but high enough to avoid coagulation.

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What are the six major COMPONENTS of blood

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cells, proteins, lipids, electrolytes, vitamins and hormones, glucose.

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Three main types of cells in blood

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erythroid, myeloid and lymphoid

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four examples of proteins in blood

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albumin, haemoglobin, fibrinogen, immunoglobulins

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Lipids in blood are bound in _______ (HDL, LDL, VLDL)

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lipoproteins

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electrolytes in blood includes ______ which…..

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salts and minerals which maintain isotonicity

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what is centrifugation

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separation of blood

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what is the blood separated into in centrifugation
plasma, buffy coat (white blood cells and platelets) and red blood cells
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What is electrophoresis?
Using an electric current to separate proteins
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What is plasma? (and what does it contain that is removed with coagulation)
The viscous liquid fraction of blood without cells. Contains fibrinogen that is removed with coagulation.
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What is serum?
A less viscous yellow liquid remaining after removal of the clot.
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What protein is absent from serum?
Fibrinogen
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What happens in serum electrophoresis?
Serum proteins exposed to an electric field separates into 5 distinct bands
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what are the bands serum proteins separate into in serum electrophoresis?
albumin, globulin, a1, a2, B, y.
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what is multiple myeloma
a form of leukemia where a malignant lymphocyte produces monoclonal Ig.
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what diagnoses multiple myeloma?
serum electrophoresis
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What resides in the gamma fraction at the end of the serum electrophoresis graph?
antibodies - these are positively charged and migrate to the negative electrode the furthest
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What is the most abundant blood cell
erythrocytes
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Describe the features and functions of erythrocytes (in terms of nucleus, shape, purpose and main protein)
enucleated (no nucleus), forms a flat disc, sole purpose is to carry oxygen to tissue and thus main protein is haemoglobin
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what are leukocytes and which is the most abundant
cells that make up the immune defence - most abundant is neutrophil
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Purpose of platelets
coagulation and tissue repair
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What type of immunity do myeloid cells provide
innate immunity
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what are the four types of myeloid cells
neutrophils, monocytes (become macrophages), basophils, eosinophils
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what are the two types of lymphoid cells? (and what component of adaptive immunity do each provide)
B lymphocytes (antibodies - adaptive immunity) T-lymphocytes (cellular - adaptive immunity)
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what does albumin do
1. maintains colloidal osmotic pressure | 2. binds and transports many small molecules and hormones.
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what is fibrinogen activated through and what does it form
activated through the coagulation cascade to form cross-linked fibrin
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what is fibrinogen cleaved by and what does this form
cleaved by the enzyme thrombin to form cross-linked fibrin that forms the blood clot
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what are immunoglobulins and what are they produced by
antibodies - a diverse repertoire of antigen-binding proteins - produced by B lymphocytes
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what form of b lymphocytes are immunoglobulins (Ig) produced by?
plasma cells
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What is complement
9 proteins that "coat" bacteria targeting them for phagocytosis - helps with opsonization
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what is the major complement component
C3
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what are coagulation factors?
13 proteins cleaved in an ordered cascade resulting in fibrinogen becoming fibrin.
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what ion is essential for coagulation
Ca2+
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what causes hemophilia
missing component
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what is the most common form of hemophilia
factor VIII deficiency
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what are electrolytes useful for
isotonicity and buffering
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what pH is blood maintained at
7.4
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What is the tight maintaining of free Ca2+ and K+ critical for
regulation of cell membrane channels, ion pumps and normal nerve and muscle function such as the heart
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What are the first cells that arrive at the site of infection
neutrophils (through activation of complement)
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what do all blood cells begin as
human stem cell (HSC)
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where are HSC's found
bone marrow
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what is CD34
a surface antigen marker on HSCs
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what does an anti-CD34 antibody do
select and concentrate HSCs from blood prior to bone marrow transplant
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HSCs exist in about 10,000 white cells in bone marrow and thus it is critical to get enough HSC to?
reconstitute the patient quickly before infection sets in
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what is haematopoiesis
formation of blood cellular components
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what are the three important factors that drive haematopoiesis
1. GM - CSF 2. EPO 3. G - CSF
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what is GM - CSF
granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor
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What is EPO
Erythropoietin
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what is G - CSF
granulocyte colony-stimulating factor
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what is GM - CSF produced by
macrophages, T cells, endothelial cells and fibroblasts
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what does GM - CSF stimulate the production of
neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils and monocytes
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what does EPO do
drives the production of erythrocytes
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what is EPO produced by
the kidney during adulthood and liver in perinatal
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what is G - CSF produced by
many different cells
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what does G - CSF stimulate production of
granulocytes but also acts to mature neutrophils
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what are G - CSF & GM - CSF commonly administered for
repopulation of white cells in leukaemia patients follow radio-ablation
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what is EPO commonly administered for
greater endurance
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where are CD34+ cells most abundant
placental cord blood
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CD34+ HSC gives rise to which two multipotent stem cells
myeloid or lymphoid progenitors
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myeloid progenitor gives rise to what four things
erythrocytes, a platelet producing megakaryocyte, mast cells or myeloblasts
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myeloblasts differentiate into what four things
neutrophils, basophils, eosinophils or monocytes
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lymphoid progenitor differentiates into what two things
B lymphocytes or T lymphocytes
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what does immature T lymphocyte differentiate into
CD4 or CD8
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what do lungs allow
exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide
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what is the association and dissociation of O2 from heme regulated by
partial pressure of O2
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where does O2 dissociate and associate
associates in lungs dissociates in tissues

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