BIOL 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 34: Autoregulation, Vascular Smooth Muscle, Tight Junction

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Only anatomical avenue by which oxygen and nutrients reach the cells. Supply, nourish, and remove metabolic products from cells. Arteries and veins run parallel with web-like network of capillaries that is embedded in tissue and that connects them. Capillary wall structure allows for exchange of o2 for co2 and nutrients for cellular metabolic wastes. Capillaries then pass their waste-rich blood to the veins. Most of this pressure is lost in the capillaries and the veins then carry blood back to the heart at lower pressures and use one-way valves to prevent back-flow. Pressure loss through the large capillary networks of the lungs and the combined capillary networks of the remaining organs is also why the blood circulation requires the heart to have a separate pumping component for each. Arteries have three layers: an outer layer of tissue, a muscular middle, and an inner layer of epithelial cells. Muscle in the middle is elastic and very strong.

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