Transport

Defense- enguls & destroys pathogens, removes dead & dying cells

Regulation-body temp, water salt balance, body ph

Albumins

Globulins-alpha & beta produced by liver, gamma antibodies

Fibrinogen-functions in blood clotting

Help maintain homeostasis

The process of blood cell formation

Pigment of RBC's responsible for oxygen transport

Red Blood Cells

-small biconcave disks that lack a nucleus when mature

-4-6million per mm

-transport oxygen

-main component is hemoglobin

Hormone released by the kidneys to increase RBC production in the red bone marrow

White Blood Cell

-fight infections

-destroy dead or dying body cells

-recognizing & killing cancerous cells

Type of granular leukocyte

-most abundant of the WBC's

-first to respond to an infection

-engulf pathogens during phagocytosis

*remember youtube video*

Platelets

-cell fragments necessary to the process of hemostasis (cessation of bleeding)

-anuclear

Low platelet count

Clot that forms in an unbroken blood vessel

It is picked up by lymphatic vessels, then returned to bloodstream

Accumulation of excess tissue fluid

localized swelling

The antigens on RBC's (ABO groups)

-type A- A antigen, anti B antibodies

-type B- B antigen, anti A antibodies

-type AB- both antigens, neither antibodies

-type O- no AB antigens, both antibodies

Type O

Type AB

*has no antibodies in the plasma