PATH 3610 Study Guide - Cardiogenic Shock, Reactive Oxygen Species, Fetus

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Osmosis- solvent passing from less. concentration to greater. Hydrostatic pressure"- pressure of water , influenced by heart activity, elasticity + recoil of blood vessels, the quantity of blood w. i a vessel, etc. Normally hydrostatic & oncotic pressures are near 0, so contribute little to fluid exchange. Normal capillary, at arteriolar end of capillary bed, vascular hydrostatic pressure (pushing fluid out of vessels) is higher than vascular oncotic pressure (drawing fluid into vessels). Net effect drives fluid into tissues (to deliver nutrients and o2 to tissues). At venular end, v. hydrostatic pressure lower than v. oncotic pressure, driving fluid back into blood vessels, carrying away metabolic waste byproducts of tissue. Usually balanced so gains and losses of fluid equal. Fluid moves out of capillaries at the pores, which permit only small molecules through. Most of this returns to capillary via the pull of the oncotic pressure of the plasma proteins in the capillary.

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