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The
Cardiovascular
System Blood
PowerPoint Lecture Slides
prepared by Jason LaPres
North Harris College
Houston, Texas
Introduction
The cardiovascular system is like the
cooling system of a car.
Includes blood, the heart, and a network of blood
vessels
Provides a mechanism for the rapid transport of
nutrients, waste products, and cells within the body
Formed Elements
Formed Elements
Red blood cells (RBC) or erythrocytes
Most numerous cell
Transports oxygen and carbon dioxide
Usually degenerate after roughly 120 days in
circulation
Hemoglobin (Hb)
Accounts for more than 95% of the RBCs proteins
Give RBCs the ability to transport oxygen and carbon
dioxide
Formed Elements
Formed Elements
Formed Elements
Formed Elements
Formed Elements
White blood cells (WBC) or leukocytes
Defend body against pathogens and remove toxins,
wastes, and abnormal or damaged cells
Two classes:
Granular leukocytes
Neutrophils
Eosinophils (acidophils)
Basophils
Agranular leukocytes
Monocytes
Lymphocytes
Formed Elements
Formed Elements
Platelets
Not cells; they are membrane-enclosed packets of
cytoplasm
Released into blood by megakaryocytes,
enormous cells in the bone marrow
Circulate for 10 12 days before being removed
by phagocytes; continually replaced
Functions
Transport chemicals important for clotting
Temporarily patch the walls of damaged blood vessels
Causing contraction after a clot has formed to reduce
the size of the break in the vessel wall
Copyright 2009 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings
Formed Elements
Formed Elements
Hemopoiesis
The process of blood cell formation
Stem cells or pluripotential stem cells (PPSC)
divide to form all of the blood cells.
Give rise to myeloid stem cells and lymphoid stem
cells
Hemopoiesis