KIN 2500 : Test 5 Notes
15 Mar 2019
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Intersistial fluid is constantly being renewed by the blood. Functions of blood: transportation, can be metabolic waste, nutrients, hormones, etc, regulation, ph, temperature, and osmotic pressure, protection, against excessive blood loss, disease. Hematocrit: the number of red blood cells that are in the blood. Physical characteristics of blood: blood is denser and more viscous than water, temperature, color of blood varies depending on where you draw it from. Blood plasma: 91. 5% water and 8. 5% solutes, plasma proteins, created in liver, confined to the blood, hepatocytes. Synthesize most of the plasma proteins: albunin, maintains blood pressure, specifically blood osmotic pressure, fibrinogen and globulin, certain blood cells develop into cells that produce gamma globulins. Important: also called antibodies or immunoglobulins, other solutes in plasma, electrolytes, nutrients, enzymes, hormones, creatine. Leads to immediate release of prothrombin activators: catalyze into prothrombin, prothrombin then goes into thrombin, once thrombin released, goes into fibrinogen.
