Chapter 18: Blood
Blood Type A has:
A antigens and B antibodies
Blood type AB has:
AB antigens and no antibodies
Universal blood type recipient is:
AB+
Blood Type B has:
B antigen and A antibodies
Why are people with blood type AB considered universal blood recipients?
Because their blood contains no anti A and no anti B antibodies
A molecule of hemoglobin:
Consists of 4 subunits, each with a globin protein bound to a heme group.
the production of healthy erythrocytes depends upon the availability of:
Copper, Zinc, and vitamin B12
Blood type O has:
No antigens and A&B antibodies
Universal donor blood type is:
O-
Erythrocytes Carry:
O2
What part of the formed element portion of blood would be needed to stop bleeding?
Platelets
interleukins are associated with:
Production of various lymphocytes, immune response, inflammation
What maternal and fetal blood types would result in sensitization, then hemolytic disease of the newborn.
Rh+ fetus and Rh- mother
Molly slices her thumb while chopping garlic for dinner. As platelets begin to form a plug, what will they release to maintain vasoconstriction?
Seratonin
What portion of the brain receives pain and temperature sensation via the trigeminal pathway?
Spinal trigeminal nucleus of the medulla
About 30% of platelets migrate to what organ, where they are stored until they are called to respond to a broken blood vessel?
Spleen
True or false? Erythropoietin facilitates the proliferation and differentiation of the erythrocyte lineage.
TRUE
What region of gray matter in the spinal cord contains motor neurons that innervate skeletal muscles?
Ventral Horn
Cell clustering induced by antibody-antigen attachment is called:
agglutination
Athletes may take synthetic EPO to boost their:
blood oxygen levels
What portion of centrifuged blood makes up its smallest proportion, and what does it contain?
buffy coat, white blood cells and platelets
Prothrombin is converted to thrombin during the:
common pathway
Thrombocytes:
decrease blood loss
The mechanism in which leukocytes pass through the small capillaries is known as:
diapedesis
The process in which leukocytes squeeze through adjacent cells in a blood vessel wall is called:
emigration
What plasma protein is not produced by the liver?
immunoglobulin
Hemophillia is characterized by:
inadequate production of clotting factors
aging and damaged erythrocytes are removed from the circulation by:
macrophages
Granular leukocytes derive from what line of stem cells?
myeloid stem cells
which granular white blood cells feature a nuclei with 2-5 lobes and stain light lilac?
neutrophils
The anterior pituitary gland develops from which embryonic germ layer?
oral ectoderm
Damage to the liver would interrupt the development of which formed element?
platelets
What stimulus causes the release of ANP, and from what organ?
the heart, in response in increased blood pressure.
mature, circulating erythrocytes:
they have no nucleus
Ms. Hanson's PH blood test comes back at 8.0 compared to a normal blood PH level, Ms. Hanson's blood PH is:
too basic
