Tissue Fluid

Question 1

What is tissue fluid?

Answer 1

The watery liquid that contains glucose, amino acids, fatty acids, ions and oxygen

Question 2

1st step- hydrostatic pressure?

Answer 2

The hydrostatic pressure is higher at the arterial end

Question 3

2nd step- what does this hydrostatic pressure do?

Answer 3

Forces fluid out of the capillary

Question 4

What is the water potential like at the arterial end?

Answer 4

Lower than the tissue fluid and the hydrostatic pressure of the tissue fluid

Question 5

How is fluid forced out of the capillary?

Answer 5

By ultrafiltration

Question 6

Return: what happens at the venous end?

Answer 6

The hydrostatic pressure falls

Question 7

What does formation of the tissue fluid do to the water potential?

Answer 7

Reduces the water potential of the blood slightly because the plasma proteins cant cross the basement membrane- the volume of water has decreased

Question 8

What does fluid do into the capillary: return?

Answer 8

Moves into the capillary but around 10% drains into the lymphatic system