ANP 1105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Pernicious Anemia, Hemolytic Anemia, Aplastic Anemia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Anatomy and Physiology
• Course: ANP 1105
• Professor: Jacqueline Carnegie

Document Summary

Only fluid tissue in the body (formed elements suspended in plasma(matrix)) Erythrocytes rbcs (have everything except a nucleus and eventually lose most organelles) Leucocytes or wbcs (contain organelles and a nucleus) Platelets (do not have a nucleus or many organelles) Colour is scarlet (o2- rich) to dark red (o2 -poor) Ph= 7. 35-7. 45 (below, considered acidosis; over, considered alkalosis) Functions: distribution (transportation, oxygen from lungs and nutrients (glucose, amino acids, ions and vitamins and minerals, etc. ) from digestive tract to all body cells, metabolic waste: from cells to elimination sites (ex. Plasma is a nonliving fluid matrix, straw-coloured, sticky fluid, made 90% of water (with some additional solutes: nutrients, gases, hormones, wastes and products of cell activity, proteins and inorganic ions (electrolytes). The major osmotic ion: sodium ions (meaning it is in large quantity) The plasma composition is kept constant by various homeostatic mechanisms.