BIOL 30200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Red Blood Cell, Vasospasm
13 Feb 2018
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Blood is acutally a connective tissue where the extracellular matrix is liquid. You have cells and broken down cells suspended in plasma. Blood is very important because it is delivering oxygen and nutrients. Interstitial fluid bastes the cells: functions of blood. Job: transportation of oxygen and nutrients and picking up carbon dioxide and wastes and delivers it to other regions. The nutrients absorped by the digestive system go to the liver which picks out harmful wastes then puts the rest in the circulate on. Exchange is not directly regulation: maintaining homeostasis of body fluids. Our bdoy fluids are in different compartmnets and keeping them in the right place is important. Ph of blood is 7. 35-7. 45. there are many buffers in blood which play an important role in maintaining the ph. Osmotic pressure, the proteins present in blood contribute to this. The osmotic pressure determines intracellular fluid blood is kind of viscous mainly caused by red blood cells and proteins.
