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What is blood?
Connective tissue surrounded by liquid matrix.
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What are the functions of blood?
To transfer gases, heat and nutrients, and carry hormones around the body.
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Neutrophils are:
The most abundant, and the first to arrive at infected site, it engulfs bacteria or invaded cells.
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Eosinophils's functions are to:
Defend against parasitic worms, and engulf antibody-antigen complex.
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Basophils' functions are to:
Release molecules call histamine, and attract other white blood cells to the infected area.
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Monocytes are:
The largest of formed elements, and they develop into macrophages, and triggers the immune response.
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Red blood cells:
Contain hemoglobin, and has no nucleus, DNA, and doesn't replicate.
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Hematopoietic stem cells:
Dfferientiate into different types of formed elements.
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Erthropoietin is:
A hormone that stimulates red bone marrow to produce more RBCs, and is produced in the kidney.
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Which organ breaks down hemaglobin into billirubin?
Liver
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Yellowish skin caused by a nonfunctional liver, and can't break down billirubin.
Jaundice
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Type O blood has:
No antigens, and A,B Antibodies.
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Type A blood has:
Antigen A, Antibody B
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Type B blood has:
Antigen B, Antibody A
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Type AB blood has:
Antigen A,B, and no antibodies
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Substance recognized as foreign by the body
Antigen
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Protein in the body that is produced in response to an antigen
Antibody
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Clumping of RBCs when held together by antibodies.
Agglutination
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