Summary: Blood-Chapter 17

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  • why is blood transportation important?

    it carries O2 and CO2 to and from cells, takes endocrine hormones to target tissues and takes nutrients to and from cells
  • why is regulations of blood important?

    it stabilizes, temperature, pH buffering and fluid volume
  • why is defense in blood important?

    helps fight infection, adaptive and innate immune response
  • structure of a RBC?

    bi-concave, no nucleus/organelles
  • what are WBC's responsible for?

    defense against infection
  • what is the function of B cells

    humoral immune response, differentiate in plasma cells to produce antibodies
  • what is the function of T cells?

    cellular immune response, arise in bone marrow, migrate to lymph tissue, mature in thymus, differentiate into
    -cytotoxic t-cells
    -helper t-cells
    -regulatory t-cells
  • paracrine factors of anticoagulants

    endothelial cells generate prostacyclin, promoting vasodilation which inhibits activation/clotting
  • anticoagulant factors of anticoagulants

    tissue factor pathway inhibitor(TFPI) blocks extrinsic pathway at complex
  • factors that affect viscosity

    -fibrinogen concentration
    -hematocrit levels
    -vessel radius
    -linear velocity
    -temperature
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