Module 1: Normal Blood Components, Production, and Erythrocytes Flashcards
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Define hematopoieses
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Production and development of blood cells
Constant restoring of various blood cells
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What does the hematopoietic system consist of?
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Bone marrow, liver, spleen, thymus, and lymph nodes
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What cells does erythropoieses produce? Leukopoiesis? Thrombopoiesis?
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Red blood cells, white blood cells, and plateltes
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What are myeloid cells?
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Blood cells produced in the bone marrow
All blood cells except for lymphocytes
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What are non-myeloid cells?
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Blood cells not produced in the bone marrow
Lymphocytes, produced in the lymph nodes
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What is medullaary hematopoiesis?
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Production of myeloid cells in the bone marrow
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What is extra-medullary hematopoiesis?
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Production of myeloid cells outside of the bone marrow
**Not normal is adults!
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What are the 3 stages of hematopoiesis?
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Mesoblastic, hepatic, and myeloid
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What is the mesoblastic phase of hematopoiesis?
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2nd - 12th gestational weeks
Yolk sac and embryo form primitive blood stem cells (erythroblasts)
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What is the hepatic phase of hematopoiesis?
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6th gestational week to 2 weeks old
Liver and spleen produce more mature erythrocytes, then granulocytes, the monocytes
Lymph nodes begin forming lymphocytes
Bone marrow forms at 8 weeks gestation
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What is the myeloid phase of hematopoiesis?
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20th week gestation to death
Lymph nodes produce lymphocytes, bone marrow produces myeloid cells
Liver and spleen have potential for hematopoiesis if needed
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What is the hematopoietic inductive microenvironment?
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The bone marrow where myeloid cells can be produced and differentiate
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What is the difference between red and yellow bone marrow?
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Red - active bone marrow that can undergo hematopoiesis (children)
Yellow - inactive bone marrow, mostly fat (adults)
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How is the liver involved with hematopoiesis?
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Produces myeloid cells during gestation
In adults, synthesizes and produces transport proteins, stores vitamins and minerals for DNA and RNA synthesis, and breaks down hemoglobin
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How is the spleen involved in hematopoiesis?
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Produces myeloid cells during gestation
In adults, removes old and damaged RBC’s, and stores platelets
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How does a splenectomy affect hematopoiesis?
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Can no longer remove defective RBC’s
Increased platelets, increased poikilocytosis, increased denatured hemoglobin in RBC’s (Heinz bodies), increased retained nuclear material in RBC’s (Howell-Jolly bodies)
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How is the thymus involved in hematopoiesis?
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Production and maturation of T-lymphocytes
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How are the lymph nodes involved in hematopoiesis?
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Form new lymphocytes
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What are stem cells?
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Primitive, formative, unspecialized blood cells with potential to become several types of specialized blood cells
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What is the most primitive hematopoietic stem cell?
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Reticulum Cell
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What can the reticulum stem cell differentiate into?
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CFU-S (Colony forming unit - stem)
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What is a CFU-S cell?
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Colony forming unit - stem
pluripotential blood stem cell
multipotent lymphohematopoietic stem cell
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What might a CFU-S stem cell differentiate into?
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CFU-GEMM or CFU-L
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What is a CFU-L stem cell?
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Colony forming unti - Lymphoid
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What may a CFU-L stem cell differentiate into?
Lymphocyte precursor cells
B-cell precursor
T-cell precursor
NK cell precursor
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What is a CFU-GEMM stem cell?
Colony forming unit - Granulocyte, erythroid, monocyte, megakaryocyte
Myeloid stem cell
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What might a CFU-GEMM stem cell differentiate into?
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CFU-Eo (eosnophils)
CFU-Baso (basophils)
CFU-GM (granulocyte, monocyte)
BFU-E (Burst forming unit - erythroid)
BFU-Meg (Burst forming unit - megakaryocyte)
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What is a CFU-GM stem cell?
Colony forming unit - granulocyte, monocyte
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What might a CFU-GM stem cell differentiate into?
CFU-G
| CFU-M
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What is a blast cell?
Earliest stage of a blood cell that can be identified as the precursor to a certain cell line
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What are growth factors?
Proteins that ind to cells resulting in their activation and cellular proliferation/maturation
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What are the 3 most important growth factors in hematopoiesis? What is each secreted from?
Colony stimulating factor (CSF) and interleukins (IL) - macrophages, lymphocytes, and bone marrow stromal cells (fibroblasts, endothelial cells)
Erythropoietin (EPO) - kidneys
Thrombopoietin (TPO) - liver
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What are cytokines?
Multi-functional, potent, low molecular weight glycoprotein chemical mediators, secreted locally and inhibit or induce cellular RNA or protein synthesis.
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What are cytokines secreted by?
T-lymphocytes (lymphokines) and monocytes/macrophages (monokines)
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What 3 growth factors do monocytes/macrophages produce?
Tissue necrosis factor
Interleukin-1
Interleukin-6
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What 2 monocyte/macrophage produced growth factors work together? How?
Tissue necrosis factor + Interleukin-1
Activate and stimulate T-cells and bone marrow stromal cells to produce cytokines
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What does Interleukin-6 do?
Stimulates B-cells to differentiate and produce antibodies, induces acute phase response to protein production by liver cells
Augments responses of immune cells to hematopoietic growth factors and cytokines
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What growth factors do T-lymphocytes produce?
Stem cell factor
Flt ligand
Interleukin-3
Interleukin-5
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What 3 T-lymphocyte produced growth factors work together? How?
Stem cell factor + Flt ligand +Interleukin-3
Induce CFU-S cell to differentiate into CFU-GEMM or CFU-L and undergo mitosis
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What does Interleukin-5 do?
Induces eosinophil growth and function
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What growth factors do bone marrow stromal cells produce?
Granulocyte/monocyte stimulating factor
Granulocyte (neutrophil) stimulating factor
Monocyte/macrophage stimulating factor
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What does granulocyte/monocyte stimulating factor do?
Induces CFU-GEMM cells to differentiate into CFU-Eo, CFU-baso, CFU-GM, BFU-E, and BFU-meg cells and undergo mitosis
Stimulates phagocytic and cytotoxic functions in neutrophils and macrophages
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What does granulocyte (neutrophil) stimulating factor do?
Induces maturation and mitosis of CFU-G and myeloblast cells
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What does monocyte/macrophage stimulating factor do?
Induces maturation and mitosis of CFU-M and monoblast cells
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What growth factors do kidney cells (juxtaglomerular region) produce?
Erythropoietin
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What does erythropoietin do?
Induces maturation and mitosis of BFU-E, CFU-E, pronormoblasts, and NRBC's
May induce other myeloid cell production if increased for a long period of time
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What growth factors do liver cells as well as macrophages and endothelial cells produce?
Thrombopoietin
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What does thrombopoietin do?
Induces maturation and mitosis of CFU-meg and megakaryocyte cells
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What is tissue necrosis factor produced by?
Monocytes and macrophages
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What is Interleukin-1 produced by?
Monocytes and macrophages
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What is Interleukin-6 produced by?
Monocytes and macrophages
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What is stem cell factor produced by?
T-lymphocytes
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What is flt ligand produced by?
T-lymphocytes
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What is Interleukin-3 produced by?
T-lymphocytes
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What is Interleukin-5 produced by?
T-lymphocytes
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What is granulocyte/monocyte stimulating factor produced by?
Bone marrow stromal cells
| ex: fibroblasts, endothelial cells
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What is granulocyte (neutrophil) stimulating factor produced by?
Bone marrow stromal cells
| ex: fibroblasts, endothelial cells
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What is monocyte/macrophage stimulating factor produced by?
Bone marrow stromal cells
| ex: fibroblasts, endothelial cells
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What is erythropoietin produced by?
Kidney cells (juxtaglomerular region)
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What is thrombopoietin produced by?
Liver cells, macrophages, and endothelial cells
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Define effective erythropoiesis
85% or more of developing RBCs in marrow are produced and released into the blood
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Define ineffective erythropoiesis
Less than 85% of the developing RBC's in marrow are produced normally and make it into the blood
(more than 15% die)
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How long do NRBCs survive in the bone marrow and blood?
5 days and 0 days
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How long do reticulocytes survive in the bone marrow and blood?
3 days and 1 day
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How long do erythrocytes survive in the bone marrow and blood?
1 day and 110-120 days
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How long do magakaryocytes survive in the bone marrow and blood?
7 days and 0 days
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How long do platelets survive in the bone marrow and blood?
0 days and 8-10 days
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How long do immature neutrophils survive in the bone marrow and blood?
5 days and 0 days
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How long do bands and segmented neutrophils survive in the bone marrow, blood, and tissues?
7 days, 8 hours, and up to 6 days
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How is increased demand for blood cells handled in the body?
1. Bone marrow releases immature forms (left shift)
2. Cell undergo more divisions
3. Accelerating maturation time
4. Increasing hematopoiesis in inactive areas
- increasing # of blast cells
- activating stem cells -> blasts (yellow marrow to red)
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What are the 4 morphological changes that occur during blood cell maturation?
1. Cell size decrease
2. Nuclear/cytoplasmic ratio decrease
3. Nuclear maturation (smaller, lose nucleoli, more clumping)
4. Cytoplasm maturation (smaller, less blue, more pink)
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How does each morphological feature change with maturation?
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Cell size
Nuclear/cytoplasmic ratio
Chromatin pattern
Presence of nucleoli
Cytoplasm color
Cytoplasm granulation
Cytoplasm vacuoles
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Decreases
Decreases
More condensed
Not in mature cells
Dark blue, light blue, blue-gray/pink
No granules to non-specific to specific
Increase with age
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What is it called when a cells nucleus and cytoplasm develop at different rates?
Nuclear cytoplasmic asynchrony
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dyspoiesis
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Define nuclear cytoplasmic asynchrony / dyspoiesis
Nuclear differentiation lags behind cytoplasm, or vise versa
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Name the 6 stages of erythrocyte development
1. Pronormoblast (Rubriblast)
2. Basophilic normoblast (Prorubricyte)
3. Polychromatic normoblast (Rubricyte)
4. Orthochromic normoblast (Metarubricyte)
5. Polychromatiophilic (Reticulocyte)
6. Erythrocyte
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Describe the morphology of a pronormoblast
14-24μ
round central red-ish unclumped nucleus
0-2 nucleoli
small deep blue cytoplasm
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Describe the morphology of a basophilic normoblast
12-17μ
Round/oval central/eccentric slightly clumped nucleus with parachromatin but no nucleoli
small deep blue/purple cytoplasm
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Describe the morphology of a polychromatic normoblast
10-15μ
Round/oval central/eccentric deep purple/black heavily clumped nucleus with parachromatin and no nucleoli
Small 4:1-2:1 polychromatic cytoplasm
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Describe the morphology of a orthochromic normoblast
8-12μ
Round central pyknotic black/brown nucleus
Moderate bluish-pink cytoplasm
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Describe the morphology of a reticulocyte
7-10μ
No nucleus
Clear gray/blue cytoplasm, polychromatic to pink
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Describe the morphology of an erythrocyte
7-8μ
No nucleus
Pink cytoplasm
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Describe the plasma membrane of a red blood cell
Double bipolar lipid layer
50% protein 40% lipid 10% carbohydrate
Contains structural and contractile proteins (actin and spectrin), ATPase enzymes, surface antigens (A, B, H, etc), and receptor protein molecules (TfR)
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Describe the structure of an RBC plasma membrane in regards to the lipid present
Two layers of glyco and phospholipids, polar group on the outside (bipolar)
Glycolipids are antigens on the outer surface
Cholesterol strengthens it
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Describe the structure of an RBC plasma membrane in regards to the protein
Structural proteins are integral (penetrate membrane, glycophorin A) or peripheral (outside, spectrin)
If lipids attached, may be antigenic
Spectrin and actin maintain biconcave disk
Band 3 channels ions
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Describe the structure of the RBC plasma membrane in regards to the carbohydrates
Thin mucopolysaccharide layer on surface
| Oligosaccharides attached to lipids and proteins as antigens
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Define selective permeability
Ability to selectively allow molecules to move in and out of the membrane according to cell requirement
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What are the 3 functions of the RBC plasma membrane?
1. Diffusion - water and lipid-soluble molecules cross
2. Facilitated diffusion - molecules cross by attaching to transport molecules (ex: glucose mediated by insulin)
3. Active transport - movement against concentration or electrical gradients, requires ATP and transport enzymes
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Describe the sodium potassium pump
1 molecule of ATP pumps 2 molecules of K into the cell and 3 molecules of Na out of the cell against concentration gradients
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Describe the calcium pump
ATP pumps Ca out of the cell
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What happens when calcium builds up inside an RBC?
Elasticity is lost and hemolysis will occur
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Why do RBC membranes have a negative charge?
To repel other RBCs in the blood to prevent damage by collisions
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What happens when Na builds up inside an RBC?
Water follows Na into the cell causing swelling and hemolysis
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What is present in an erythrocyte?
About 250 million hemoglobin molecules, organelles, enzymes, electrolytes, carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins
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When is hemoglobin produced?
During RBC maturation
65% in normoblasts
35% in reticulocytes
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What is required for hemoglobin production?
Iron, and other nutrients
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What is hemoglobin made of?
Globin (4 polypeptide chains) and 4 heme molecules (protoporphyrin ring containing iron)
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What is heme synthesis?
Creating of heme in the mitochondria and cytoplasm of NRBCs
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Describe the pathway of heme synthesis
glycine + succinyl CoA ---> delta ALA (by activation by Vitamin B6 and erythropoietin)
delta ALA ---> porphobilinogen (by activation by ALA dehydrase)
porphobilinogen ---> uroporphyrinogen III ---> coproporphyrinogen III ---> protoporphyrinogen IX ---> protoporphyrin IX
protoporphyrin IX ---> heme (ferroprotoporphyrin IX) (with iron by iron chelatase)
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What would happen to heme synthesis if there is an iron deficiency?
Less heme would be formed in the NRBCs and protoporphyrin would accumulate
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What would happen if there was a deficiency in enzymes that are required for heme synthesis?
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Less heme would be formed or would stop altogether at the point of deficiency
Other products (porphyrins) may be formed and cause diseases
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What stimulates globin synthesis?
The presence of free heme in the cytoplasm of the NRBC
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Where does globin synthesis take place?
In the ribosomes of the NRBCs
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What are the 6 possible polypeptide chains in globin synthesis?
Alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, and zeta
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How is the golbin polypeptide chain decided?
Produced at different rates by mRNA depending on the person's age
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How does heme bond to globin?
By the iron atom to two histidine sites on the globin
| One is permanent one is reversible (used by O2 or H2O)
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What are the 3 types of embryonic hemoglobin?
Hb Gower 1 (E4 or Z2E4)
Hb Portland (Z2G2)
Hb Gower 2 (A2E2)
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What are the characteristic of embryonic hemoglobin?
Produced in first 12 weeks gestation
| NO BETA CHAINS
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What is fetal hemoglobin?
HbF (A2G2)
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What are the characteristics of fetal hemoglobin?
Higher affinity for O2 (not good at letting O2 go)
Resists denaturation in alkalines and acids (lab tests)
>75% of hbg at birth is HbF
Not evenly distributed in all RBCs
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What are the 2 adult hemoglobins?
HbA2 (A2D2)
| HbA (A2B2)
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What are the characteristic of adult hemoglobin A2?
<3% of total hgb
Evenly distributed
Same O2 affinity as A
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What are the characteristics of adult hemoglobin A?
Major component
| 96-98% of total hgb
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What polypeptide chain has the best oxygen carrying and delivering ability?
Alpha
| Adult hgb always has 2 alpha chains
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What is hemoglobin A1C?
"Glycosylated/glycated hemoglobin"
| Hemoglobin A and a glucose molecule attached to the beta polypeptide
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How is hemoglobin A1C testing used?
Used to monitor diabetes over a period of time
| Normal person has <5%
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Define reduced hemoglobin
HbA in which iron atoms are in the ferrous (2+) state
| Required state for binding oxygen
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Define oxyhemoglobin
HbO2
| Reduced hemoglobin carrying O2 bound to some or all iron atoms
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Define deoxyhemoglobin
Reduced hb not carrying O2
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Define methemoglonin
MetHb/oxidized hemoglobin
| Iron atoms are in the ferric (3+) state, cannot bind O2
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How does methemoglobin occur?
Peroxidases, oxidizing agents, certain drugs, chemicals, and gases
Oxidation overwhelms reduction systems, or reduction systems fail/are inhibited and can't stop normal oxidation
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How does the body fight the creation of methemoglobin?
Strong reducing systems in the cells keep levels at less than 0.5% (>2% is abnormal)
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What does increased methemoglobin cause?
Hypoxia due to decreased O2 carrying capacity
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What might methemoglobinemia rarely be caused by?
Inherited production of abnormal HbM or from enzyme deficiency in reducing pathway
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Define carboxyhemoglobin
HbCO
| HbA combined with carbon monoxide instead of oxygen
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How does carboxyhemoglobin occur? What happens to the patient?
Exposure to carbon monoxide
Affinity for CO is greater than O2, small amounts result in significant HbCO formation
Maraschino cherry red cyanosis develops in carbon monoxide poisoning
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Define sulfhemoglobin
sulfHb/verdoglobin
HbA + inorganic sulphides or H2O2
One S atom combines with Hb and a permanent covalent bond occurs
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What causes sulfhemoglobin?
Sulphur containing medicine, H2S gas, sulphur containing foods
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What do maturing nucleated red blood cells use their energy on?
Creating proteins for maturation and mitosis like hemoglobin, membrane proteins, and enzymes
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What do mature red blood cells use their energy on?
1. Active transport (NaK pump, Ca pump), endergonic reactions (phosphorylation of glucose in glycolysis)
2. reducing co-enzymes (NAD reduced to NADH reduced to NADPH)
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Where do red blood cells get their energy from?
2 pathways of glycolysis
1. Embden-Meyerhof Pathway (anaerobin)
2. Pentose Shunt Pathday (hexose-monophosphate shunt)
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What is formed in the embden-meyerhof pathway?
2 molecules of ATP (ADP+2Pi+glucose energy)
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How is ATP used in a red cell?
Active transport pumps (NaK, Ca)
| Other endergonic reactions
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What is formed in the pentose shunt pathway?
1 NADPH molecule (NADH reduction)
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What is NADPH used for in a red cell?
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Reduced GSGG (oxidized glutathione) to GSH (reduced glutathione), which (with glutathione peroxidase) prevents oxidative damage to the cell by neutralizing oxidizers
Also metHb --> Hb with metHb reductase
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What happens if either glycolysis pathway activity is decreased?
Reduced NADH, NADPH, and ATP production leading to early hemolysis (death) due to membrane or enzyme damage and active transport failure
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What are the functions of RBCs?
1. Oxygen transport
2. Carbon dioxide transfer/hydrogen buffering
3. Nitric oxide transport
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How do RBCs transport oxygen?
O2 binds to ferrous iron in hemoglobin (each heme binds 1 O2, so 4 O2 per hemoglobin)
Oxygenation is reversible
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Define oxygen saturation
| What is the normal amount?
Amount of O2 carried by the hemoglobin in the blood, expressed as a percent of total capacity
ex: 90% = 90% of available sites are carrying O2
Normal arteriol = 95%
Normal venous = 75%
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Define partial pressure of oxygen
"Oxygen tension"
Amount of O2 in the plasma
ex: pO2 = 40mmHg
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What factors affect oxygen saturation?
1. O2 availability (reduced O2)
2. Reduced hemoglobin availability (abnormal Hb, reduced amount)
3. Hb oxygen affinity (bonding attractiveness of O2 to Hb)
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What is high O2 affinity? Low O2 affinity?
High - Hb quickly and easily bind O2 and hang on (highest in lungs)
Low - Hb releases O2 and has more difficulty binding (lowest in tissues)
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How is O2 affinity determined?
1. Heme-heme interaction (molecular structure changes)
2. Temperature
3. Bohr Effect (pH)
4. 2, 3 Biphosphoglycerate (BPG)
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Define heme-heme interaction
"Cooperative binding"
| As O2 molecules bind to Hb, the structure changes to increase the affinity
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How does temperature affect O2 affinity?
Increased temperature = decreased affinity (O2 released)
| Decreased temperature = increased affinity (O2 bound)
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How does the Bohr Effect (pH) affect O2 affinity?
7.40pH is normal
pH decreases at tissues (7.36) decreasing affinity
pH increases at the lungs (7.44) increasing affinity
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What is 2, 3-BPG?
2, 3-biphosphoglycerate, a by-product of the embden-meyerhog pathway
Produced by red cells during hypoxia at the tissues
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How does 2, 3-BPG affect O2 affinity
2, 3-BPG (produced by the red cells) binds to Hb and changes its shape, decreasing affinity and releasing ALL O2
Called desaturation
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What are the axises on the O2 affinity curve?
X axis - pO2 (plasma concentration)
| Y axis - O2 saturation (O2 on Hb)
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What factors would cause the O2 affinity curve to shift to the right? (less saturation)
Decreased pH, increased temperature, increased 2, 3-BPG
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What factors would cause the O2 affinity curve to shift to the left? (more saturation)
Increased pH, decreased temperature, decreased 2, 3-BPG
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What hemoglobin is associated with increased affinity? Decreased affinity?
Increased affinity = HbF
| Decreased affinity = HbS (sickle cell)
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How does carbon dioxide transport work?
85% diffuses into the RBCs and is converted to HCO3 (bicabonate) and H+ by carbonic anhydrase and H2O
The H+ ions bind to negatively charged amino acids
The HCO3 diffuses out of the RBC into the plasma until equilibrium is reached
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What is the buffering action of hemoglobin?
When the H+ created with CO2 becomes HCO3 in the RBC, it attaches to negatively charged amino acids in the hemoglobin which prevents it from accumulating and decreasing the pH
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What is the chloride shift?
When HCO3 diffuses out of the RBCs chloride ions usually follow it to balance the electrical charge
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What happens to the 15% of CO2 that does not get converted to HCO3?
10% is carried as carbamino hemoglobin bound to globin amino acids
5% is carried in the plasma as gas
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What is nitric oxide?
Vessel dilator, muscle relaxant produced by endothelial cells to maintain vascular patency (dilation) and resist platelet adhesion
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How is nitric oxide transported?
It attaches to free iron atoms in the heme and is carried from the tissues to the lungs
Thought to be released when oxygen tension is low, causing vasodilation and increased blood flow, and the opposite in high oxygen tension
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What is super nitric oxide? How is it transported?
Nitric oxide with an extra electron
| Attaches to cystine in the globin polypeptides and moves from the lungs to the tissue
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How are old RBCs removed from circulation?
Extravascularly - macrophages in the liver sinusoids and spleen
Intravasculrly - (small amount) hemolysed by hard collisions
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What is extravascular hemolysis?
Occuring outside of the bloodstream, usually the liver and spleen
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What happens when an RBC is phagocytised?
Useful parts are stored or released into circulation
| Non-usable portions are excreted by the liver or kidneys
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How does hemoglobin catabolism work?
Hb is digested by lysozymes in the macrophages by:
1. heme detached from globin
2. globin hydrolyzed to amino acids
3. iron detached from protoporphyrin and stored (bound to apoferritin as ferritin) or moved into plasma bound to transferrin
4. protoporphyrin oxidized to biliverdin, releasing CO, and moved into plasma and reduced to indirect bilirubin
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What happens to unconjugated bilirubin in the blood?
Bound by albumin and brought to liver
Albumin attaches to Kupffer cells (macrophages)
Bilirubin is pinocytosed and conjugated
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What happens to bilirubin after it is conjugated in the liver?
Moves into bile ducts then gallbladder
| Released into the duodenum and is reduced by bacteria to urobilinogen and stercobilinogen
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What happens to urobilinogen in the duodenum?
Some is reabsorbed and returned to the liver, then makes its way back
Most is converted to urobilin, stercobilin, and mesobilin and excreted
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What happens if extravascular hemolysis is increased?
Increased hemoglobin catabolism, increased waste
| Hyperbilirubinemia, increased urine urobilinogen, increased CO
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What may cause hyperbilirubinemia?
Increased extravascular hemolysis
Liver disease/failure, cannot conjugate properly (increased indirect)
Bile duct obstruction, cannot get rid of bilirubin (increased direct)
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What is intravascular hemolysis?
Hemolysis of RBCs in the blood stream
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What happens in intravascular hemolysis?
Hemoglobin is released into the plasma and is bound by haptoglobin
The complex is pinocytosed by macrophages in the liver and spleen
Catabolism occurs the same way as in extravascular hemolysis
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What happens if there is increased intravascular hemolysis?
Hemoglobinemia, haptoglobin might be used up
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What happens if there is not enough haptoglobin to bind hemoglobin in the plasma?
Hemoglobin dissociates into heme and globin, heme oxidizes to metheme and binds to albumin (methemalbumin) causing methemalbuminemia (brown plasma)
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Hemoglobin dissociates into dimers, excreted by the glomerulus and excreted in urine (hemoglobinuria)
Some is absorbed by the renal tubular cells and iron is stored as hemosiderin, killing the cells, and shedding into the urine (hemosiderinuria)
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What are signs of increased intravascular hemolysis?
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Hemoglobinemia
Decreased haptoglobin
Methemalbuminemia
Hemoglobinuria
Hemosiderinuria
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Explain the difference between medullary hematopoiesis and extra-medullary hematopoiesis
Medullary - production of myeloid cells in bone marrow
| Extramedullary - production of myeloid cells outside bone marrow, in liver and spleen
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Which of the normal blood cells is a non-myleoid cell?
Lymphocytes
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Which of the myeloid cells is found only in the marrow? Why?
Megakaryocytes because the cytoplasm disintegrates into platelets in the marrow
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Blood cells are of epithelial origin
a. true
b. false
b. false
Mesodermal and connective tissue origin
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The heart develops before the bones
a. true
b. false
a. true
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The liver assumes main responsibility for production of blood cells after the seventh month of gestation
a. true
b. false
b. false
The liver does this after the sixth week of gestation
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In infants and children up to 10 years of age, nearly all of the bone marrow is active (yellow)
a. true
b. false
b. false
It is active, but it is red not yellow. Yellow marrow is fatty and inactive
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What are the names and duration of each of the major phases of hematopoiesis in the embryo, fetus and adult?
Embryo - mesoblastic, 2-12 weeks gestation
Fetus - hepatic, 6th week gestation - 2 weeks old
Adult - myeloid, 20th week gestation to death
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Name the cell described:
Can become any connective tissue cell
Reticulum cell
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Name the cell described:
The blast cell of a neutrophil
Myeloblast
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Name the cell described:
Committed to become any myeloid cell
CFU-GEMM
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Name the cell described:
The largest hematopoietis cell
Megakaryocyte
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In hemtopoiesis what is responsible for the mitosis of blast cells?
The bone marrow environment
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In hematopoiesis what is responsible for the differentiation of blast cells?
Specific growth hormones
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For a developing series of blood cells, describe the usual morphologic changes that occurin the marrow from blast to mature forms:
In cell size
In nuclear chromatin clumping
In color of cytoplasm
They get smaller
It gets more clumped or condensed
Blue basophilia of the blast cell to colors that reflect the changing contents of the cytoplasm of mature cells
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What is meant by nuclear cytoplasmic asynchrony?
The nucleus or the cytoplasm develops faster or slower than normal
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What is ineffective erythropoiesis?
More than 15% of the red cells developing in the marrow die before release into the blood
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Name stromal cells in the bone marrow
Fibroblasts, endothelial cells
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Name 4 immediate progeny of the CFU-GEMM
BFU-E
CFU-meg
CFU-GMEo
CFU-baso
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Define a blast cell
Earliest for of a blood cell that is morphologically recognizable by physical appearance as belonging to a specific cell line
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What kinds of cells secrete cytokines?
Lymphocytes, macrophages, bone marrow stromal cells
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List the secretor cell(s) and function(s) of the following cytokine:
IL-1
Macrophages
| Activates and induces cytokine production by T cells and marrow stromal cells
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List the secretor cell(s) and function(s) of the following cytokine:
IL-3
T lymphocytes
| Induces maturation and mitosis of CFU-S in synergy with SCF, Flt-L
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List the secretor cell(s) and function(s) of the following cytokine:
GM-CSF
Marrow stromal cells
Induces maturation and mitosis of CFU-GEMM, CFU-GMEo, CFU-GM, and CFU-base
Activates phagocytic and killing functions of neutrophils and macrophages
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List the secretor cell(s) and function(s) of the following cytokine:
IL-5
Marrow stromal cells
| Induces eosinophil growth and function
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List the secretor cell(s) and function(s) of the following cytokine:
EPO
Kidney cells
| Induces maturation and mitosis of the erythroid cell line
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List the secretor cell(s) and function(s) of the following cytokine:
TPO
Liver cells
| Induces maturation and endomitosis of megakaryoblasts
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What is the most important property of the erythrocyte plasma membrane?
Selective permeability
201
Briefly describe the sodium pump
ATP is used to move Na out of and K into the cell against concentration gradients to maintain necessary intracellular concentrations of ions
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What part(s) of the erythrocyte plasma membrane may act as antigens?
Glycoproteins, glycolipids
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What part(s) of the erythrocyte plasma membrane maintain the shape of the cell?
Actin and spectrin
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What part(s) of the erythrocyte plasma membrane are lipids?
Phospholipids and cholesterol
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What is a concentration gradient?
A difference in concentration of substances across a membrane
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What is the specific site of synthesis of heme?
Mitochondria
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What is the specific site of synthesis of globin?
Ribosomes
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Why is hemoglobin not synthesized in mature erythrocytes?
They have no nucleus to make mRNA and they have no ribosomes to make the polypeptides from mRNA if they had any
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In the first reaction in the synthesis of heme name the reactants
Glycine and succinyl-CoA
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In the first reaction in the synthesis of heme name the reaction product
Delta-aminolevulinic acid
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In the first reaction in the synthesis of heme name the reaction enzyme
Delta-aminolevulinic acid synthetase
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In the first reaction in the synthesis of heme name the reaction coenzyme
Pyridoxine (Vitamin B12)
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In the first reaction in the synthesis of heme name the enzyme activator
Erythropoietin
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In the first reaction in the synthesis of heme name the reaction inhibitor
Heme
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If any of the enzymes in the reactions leading to the formation of heme are deficient or absent, then _____ accumulates in the red cells and other tissues, causing a disease called _____
Porphyrins
| Porphyria
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What are the symbols and Greek names for the six types of polypeptide chains that form the various globins during the lifetime of a normal individual (from fetus to adult)
Alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta
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A normal hemoglobin molecule contains ____ heme molecules, globin(s), and ____ polypeptides making up each globin
Four
| Four
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Hb Gower is found in the embryo, fetus, and adult
a. True
b. False
b. false
| Embryo only
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Hb F is also called female hemoglobin
a. True
b. False
b. false
| Fetal hemoglobin
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HbA2 is the major component of adult Hb
a. True
b. False
b. false
| Minor component
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Alpha polypeptide chains are found in all types of normal adult hemoglobin
a. True
b. False
a. true
222
Alpha2Delta2 is the polypeptide formula for HbA2
a. True
b. False
a. true
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Reduced hemoglobin contains iron atoms in the ferrrous state
a. True
b. False
a. true
224
Write out the full name for NAD and NADPH
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
| Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
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Methemoglobinemia represents a condition in the blood where more than ____% of total Hb is metHb
2%
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Methemoglobin is oxidized Hb
a. True
b. False
a. true
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Methemoglobin is irreversible
a. True
b. False
b. false
228
Methemoglobin carries oxygen
a. True
b. False
b. false
229
Methemoglobin contains low ferric iron
a. true
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What are 2 types of reduced HbA and how are they different from one another?
Oxyhemoglobin - reduced Hb that can and is carrying oxygen
| Deoxyhemoglobin - reduced hemoglobin that can, but is not carrying oxygen
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Which type of Hb results from binding a sulphur into the molecule?
Sulfhemoglobin
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Which type of Hb results from binding carbon monoxide into the molecule?
Carboxyhemoglobin
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Which type of Hb results from binding carbon dioxide into the molecule?
Carbinohemoglobin
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Which type of Hb results from binding oxygen into the molecule?
Oxyhemoglobin
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Which energy pathways are lost after the RBC extrudes its nucleus and other unnecessary cellular organelles?
The Kreb's cycle and the electron transport system
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Mature red cells use the Embden-Meyerhof pathway of reactions to produce _____ and _____
NADH and ATP
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Mature red cells use the pentose shut to produce _____
NADPH
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How does NADPH prevent oxidation of cellular proteins?
Reduces glutathione, which reduces oxidizing agents in the cell
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What two cellular compounds (produced by glycolysis) are used to reduce metHb
NADH and NADPH
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What is 2, 3-BPG, how is it produced, and what does it do?
2, 3-Biphosphoglycerate
Produced in a small pathway off the Embden-Meyerhof pathway called the Rapport-Leubering Shunt
Binds with Hb in red cells and forces dissociation of O2 (desaturation)
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How does oxygenation differ from oxidation?
Oxygenation - binding and release of oxygen without gain or loss of electrons
Oxidation - loss of electrons in a reaction
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What is the oxygen affinity of hemoglobin? What 4 factors influence affinity in the red cell?
Oxygen affinity is the chemical bonding attractiveness of oxygen to Hb
1. pH
2. Temperature
3. 2,3-BPG
4. Number of oxygen atoms already bound (heme-heme interaction)
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Briefly outline the effects of increasing and decreasing pH on the oxygen affinity of hemoglobin
pH increases, oxygen affinity also increases
| pH decreases, oxygen affinity also decreases
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What component of hemoglobin binds oxygen at the lungs and carries it to the tissues?
The iron atoms in the heme
245
What are the 3 ways in which CO2 formed in the tissues is carried to the lungs?
1. As HCO3
2. As carbaminohemoglobin
3. As a dissolved gas in the plasma
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What enzyme is responsible for catalyzing the reactions that result in the transport of the great majority of CO2 by the red cells?
Carbonic anhydrase
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What are the two types of hemolysis that destroy about 10 billion erythrocytes per hour in the average person and where does each type of hemolysis occur?
Extravascular - by the sinusoidal mononuclear phagocytes of the liver and spleen
Intravascular - hemolysis in circulation
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The only physiologic reaction that produces carbon monoxide occurs in the catabolism of hemoglobin by reticuloendothelial macrophages. What is the reaction?
The catabolism of protoporphyrin IX into biliverdin
249
Differentiate direct from indirect bilirubin
Direct - conjugated with one or two molecules of glucuronic acid
Indirect - not conjugated with glucuronic acid
250
If there is a great deal of abnormal hemolysis, list some lab findings if the hemolysis occurs extravascularly
Increased plasma bilirubin
Increased urobilinogen in urine
Increased CO in expired air
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If there is a great deal of abnormal hemolysis, list some lab findings if the hemolysis occurs intravascularly
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Hemoglobinemia
Decreased plasma haptoglobin
Hemoglobinuria
Methemalbuminemia
Hemosinderinuria
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