circulatory system
transport system! transports hormones, Transports metabolic wastes to kidneys for filtration by excretory system
blood
Blood is considered a connective tissue****
plasma
osmoregulatory proteins
needs to be a certain solute concentration in blood to hold enough water in blood, like with kidney proteins don’t get filtrated out, lot of filtration and fluid goes into kidney but don’t want all of the water to go into filtrate so having some osmotic pressure is so important! proteins and other solutes as well help to maintain blood volume, maintaining osmotic pressure of blood
osmosis
drive of water to go where more solute, form of passive transport
albumin 1
very big doesnt ever enter nephron!
serum
Plasma minus clotting proteins, technical difference whether clotting proteins are present or not
gamma-globulin fraction
• Many antibodies in gamma-globulin fraction, fraction when spin blood called gamma-globulin fraction where antibodies would be if looking for antibodies, one treatment for covid ppl experiment with
Clotting proteins
• Clotting proteins (prothrombin, fibrinogen, etc.)
Red blood cells
• RBCs = erythrocytes formal name

red blood cells 2

hemoglobin
makes red blood cells red, so the red blood cells are born in bone marrow, center of long bone are marrow, where all red and white blood cells are generated from stem cells, red blood cells then circulate and after they circulate for about 120 days get removed by spleen and liver
red blood cells lifespan
120 days
anemia
3 reasons why anemia occurs
hematocrit
this is the measurement
volume of red blood cells/ total blood volume • Low hematocrit could signal anemia or malnutrition
circulatory system 1

white blood cell 1

Neutrophils
are phagocytes: eat bacteria, dead cells, and debris, most common WBC work horses of white blood system
Eosinophils
• Eosinophils respond to parasitic infections, allergic reactions (stains red w/ acidic eosin) white blood cells dedicated to responding to parasitic infections, sign so much mroe common and important in our past, here living in western context right now dont see as many but our ancestors dealt with many more parasitic infections, basophilis more improtant medating allergic or inflammatory responses
Basophils
mediate allergic and inflammatory responses (stains w/ basic dye)
Agranular
WBCs are lymphocytes (B and T cells) and monocytes/macrophages
granular vs agranular
agranular doesn’t have dots, granular does have dots

monocytes
grow up to be macrophages but both are phagocytic, like neutrophilis go around chomping up debris