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Blood (Intro Info)

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  • connective tissue

- ground substances is plasma

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Plasma

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  • Contains water, antibodies, proteins, respiratory gases

- 99% of blood

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Formed Elements

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  • blood cells
  • erythrocytes (red blood cells) 44%
  • leukocytes (white blood cells) both
  • platelets (thrombocytes)
  • WBC’s and platelets make up last 1% of total 45% of formed elements
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Erythrocytes

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  • shaped like biconcave discs
  • anuculate
  • life span of about 120 days
  • filled with hemoglobin
  • function: transports oxygen and carbon dioxide
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Breakdown of old Erythrocytes

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  • broken down by spleen and liver and parts are recycled
  • old broken down
  • components like heme and iron sent back to red bone marrow to make new erythrocytes
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Leukocytes (WBC’S)

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  • typically larger than erythrocytes
  • function: generate an immune response, fight infection, etc
  • able to slip out of capillary blood vessels (diapedesis)
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Neutrophils

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  • most numerous type of leukocyte
  • cytoplasm has fine pale granules
  • nucleus is multilobed (3-5)
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Eosinophils

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  • type of leukocyte
  • cytoplasm contains prominent granules that stain reddish
  • nucleus is bilobed
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Basophils

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  • make up less than 1% of all leukocytes
  • cytoplasm contains big granules that stain blue/purplish
  • bilobed nucleus
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Lymphocytes

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  • type of leukocyte
  • cytoplasm lacks visible granules
  • contains large, round dark purple nucleus, surrounded by a thin ring of pale blue cytoplasm
  • most located in lymphatic tissues
  • different kinds: T-lymphocytes, B-lymphocytes and natural kill cells
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Monocytes

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  • largest leukocyte
  • cytoplasm lacks visible granules
  • pale blue cytoplasm
  • c-shaped or kidney-bean shaped nucleus
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Mnemonic for Leukocytes

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Never (neutrophil)
Let (lymphocyte)
Monkeys (monocyte)
Eat (eosinyphil)
Bananas (basophil)
-from most to least common
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Platelets

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  • cytoplasmic fragments from larger cell
  • anucleate
  • limited life span ~5 days
  • very small
  • function: blood clotting
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Arteries

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  • take blood away from heart and to other tissues
  • transport blood high in oxygen (exception; pulmonary arteries)
  • wall structure: thicker than veins, lumen smaller than that of corresponding vein, retain circular shape
  • blood pressure is higher in arteries than in veins
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Veins

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  • take blood to heart
  • transport blood low in oxygen and high in carbon dioxide (exception: pulmonary veins)
  • wall structure: thinner than artery, larger lumen than artery, walls tend to be collapsed when not filled with blood
  • blood pressure is lower in veins
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Capillaries

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  • tiny vessels that connect arteries and veins

- responsible for gas and nutrient exchange between blood and tissues

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Pathway of Blood

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-heart–>elastic arteries–>muscular arteries–>arterioles–>capillaries–>venules–>veins–>heart

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Tunica Externa

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  • outermost layer of blood vessels
  • areolar connective tissue
  • largest layer in veins
  • Ex: aorta, and major branches of it
  • send blood to smaller muscular arteries
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Tunica Media

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  • middle layer of blood vessels
  • circularly arranged smooth muscle fibers
  • largest layer in arteries
  • sympathetic innervation typically causes vasoconstriction (narrows blood vessel walls, increases blood pressure)
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Elastic Arteries

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  • largest diameter
  • vessel wall contains large amounts of elastic protein fibers
  • aorta
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Muscular Arteries

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  • less elastic fibers than elastic arteries and more smooth muscle in tunica media
  • most named arteries (radial, ulnar)
  • send blood to arterioles
  • medium sized diameter
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Arterioles

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  • smallest diameter

- tunica media consists of 6 or fewer layers of smooth muscle

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Capillaries

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  • vessel diameter is only slightly larger than the diameter of an erythrocyte
  • have just tunica intima
  • form capillary beds
  • gas/nutirent exchange happens here
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Venules and Vens

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  • low pressure
  • take blood back to heart
  • tunica externa is thickest layer
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Venules

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  • collect blood from capillaries
  • travel next to arterioles
  • merge to form veins
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Veins

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  • formed when venules unite
  • take blood back to heart
  • most but not all veins have valves (prevent backflow of blood)
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Muscular Pumps

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  • also help blood be pushed in veins toward heart
  • contraction of skeletal muscles
  • ex: gastrocnemius and soleus pump blood from legs to heart
  • if inactive, bedridden, long plane ride, blood could pool and clot in veins–>deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
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Vericose Veins

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  • may occur when valves become incompetent/stop working

- blood pools in veins and makes them bulge