Blood is a connective tissue composed of plasma and formed elements such as red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. It delivers nutrients and oxygen to cells and removes waste. Blood forms about 30-35% of extracellular fluid and is slightly alkaline. Hematopoiesis is the process where blood cells are produced from hematopoietic stem cells in the red bone marrow through cell division. The main cell types are red blood cells, which contain hemoglobin and transport oxygen, white blood cells which help fight infection, and platelets which help with clotting to stop bleeding. Lymph is fluid that has drained from blood and carries waste for reabsorption, and also contains immune cells.
2. • Blood is a body fluid in humans and other animals that
delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen
to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away
from those same cells.
• Blood is a fluid connective tissue composed of a fluid matrix,
plasma and the blood corpuscles. It forms about 30-35% of
the extracellular fluid. It is slightly alkaline fluid having pH7.4.
• Blood is special type of connective tissue in which
extracellular matrix is fluidy in nature that is Plasma.
4. Body fluid percentage
TOTAL BODY WEIGHT
60% BODY FLUID(WATER)
40% INTRACELLULAR
FLUID
20% EXTRACELLULAR FLUID
INTERSTIAL FLUID
75%
PLASMA
25%
40% DRY
WEIGHT
5. COMPOSITION OF BLOOD
• Blood is a fluid connective tissue
composed of 55% plasma and
45% formed elements including
WBCs, RBCs, and platelets.
• Since these living cells are
suspended in plasma, blood is
known as a fluid connective
tissue and not just fluid.
• An average person carries about
5 to 6 litres of the blood.
6. Separation of plasma from blood
Centrifuge machine which separate cells
from plasma
Added anticoaggulant in whole blood to
separate plasma
7. Plasma
• Plasma is straw coloured viscous
fluid that constitutes 55% of blood
volume. It consists of 90-92% water,
6-8% protein (fibrinogens, albumins
and globulins), glucose, amino acids
and small amount of minerals like
Na+, Ca++, Cl- etc.
• Plasma carries the fibrinogen protein
which helps in blood clotting.
• Serum is the supernatant of the
coaggulated blood.
10. Protein in the plasma and their role
Small fraction of the globulin called gamma globuln act as antibodies in the blood helps in immune
response.This fraction is also called immunoglobulin(Ig).
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• Mainly three types of cells are present in the blood.
1. Red blood corpuscle (Erythrocytes)
2. White blood corpuscles (Leucocytes)
3. Platelets ( Thrombocytes)
Hematopisis is the process of blood cell synthesis which occurs in the
Red bone marrow ( Inner part of the bones).
Yellow bone marrow is the inactive part of the bone which mainly
cantains the fat cells but no hematopoisis occurs in this part.
Red bone marrow cantains the Haematopitic stem cells which regularly
divides to produce the blood cells.
13. Hematopoisis
• Hematopoisis is the synthesis of the blood cells in the red bone marrow.
• In the fetal life (before birth) the hematopoisis occurs in different parts of the
fetus-
Upto 3 week- Liver
Upto 3 months - Spleen and the lymph nodes.
At the time of birth- Allmost all bones
Adult age - Red bone marrow part of some bones like
sternum, ribs,femur, humerus,pelvicbones etc.
• Red bone marrow cantains the special type of cells which divides continuesly
throughout life to produce different type of blood cells.These cells are called
Hemopoitic Stem cells which are multipotent stem cells.
14. Hemopoitic stem cells
• Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are
the stem cells that give rise to other
blood cells. This process is called
haematopoiesis.This process occurs
in the red bone marrow, in the core
of most bones.
• Stem cells are special type of cells
which have ability to divide for long
time and they also keep their
number constant.
16. Erythrocytes or Red blood corpuscles
• They are the most common type of cells present in the blood.
• They are produced by the myeloid linage of the Hemopoitic stem cell (HSC)
division.
• They are enucleated when matured but their progenitor cells contains
nucleus.
• They are biconcave in shape.This shape helps it to move in narrow cappilaries
in the body.
• The 33% cytoplasm of the RBC is filled with the Haemoglobin which mainly
helps in oxygen transportation.The normal size of the RBC is approximately 7-8
micrometer and the volume id about 90 femtometer.
• One RBC cantains about 30picogram of haemoglobin.
17. Erythrocytes or Red blood corpuscles---
• Vitamin B12 and the folic acid is necessary for the cell division of the
erythroblast(progenitor cell) to produce the RBC.
• Iron is necessary for the production of the hemoglobin.Oxygen
temporarily binds with the iron in the hemoglobin during its
transportation in the blood.
• The deficiecny of vitamin b12, folic acid,and iron will couse different
type of anemia (Deficiency of blood).
• 1ml of blood cantains approximately 5 million of RBC.
• The normal life span of the RBC is about 120 days.
• Reticulocytes are the freshly formed RBC in the blood.
• RBC helps in the transportation of the oxygen and carbon dioxide in
the blood.
18. Leucocytes or White blood cells
• Leuco mean white and cyte means cell so they are also called as the
white blood cell.
• There are different types of leucocytes based on their structure,
nucleus shape, presence and absence of the granulocytes in their
cytoplasm and their fuction.
• They mainly function in the immune system of the body and protects
us from variuos types of infectious diseases and the invaders.
• They comes from both the linage that is myeloid and lymphoid in the
bone marrow.
• Their production is called as the leucopoisis.
19. Leucocytes or White blood cells-------
• 1ml of the blood cantains about 4000-11000 cell in normal condition.
• The increased number in the blood may indicates the infection in any
part of the body.
• The less number of WBC than the normal value is called leucopenia.
• They are present in blood, lymph,lymph nodes even in the different
organs as their permanent resident.
• Their life span varies from cell to cell.some white blood cells have life
span of 7-10 days but some memory lymphocyes have very long life
span.
• WBC are the worrier cells of the body. They helps in the innate
immunity as well aquired immunity.
20. Types of the WBC
• Neutrophls
• basophils
• Eosinophils
• Monocytes
• Natural killer cells
• T cell
• B cell
• Dendrite cell
• Mast cells
• Macrophages
21. Platelets or Thrombocytes
• Platelets are not the cells but they are the fragments of the cells
which are produced by the Megakaryocyte in the bone marrow.
• The production of thrombocytes is called thrombopoisis.
• They have no nucleus so they are short lived.
• The normal life span of the platlet is 8- 9 days. The old platlets are
destroyed by the phogocytic cells in the spleen and lymph nodes.
• Platlets helps in the hemostatis. Hemostatis is the process to prevent
and stop bleeding, meaning to keep blood within a damaged blood
vessel (the opposite of hemostasis is hemorrhage)
• Platlets makes the plug or clot at the site of bleeding or pucture in the
blood vessel and stop the blood loss.
23. Platelets or Thrombocytes
• Sometime platlets makes clumps
in the blood vessels and
circulates in the vessels which is
called thrombosis.It obstruct the
small vessels in the ciculatory
system and it is a major cause of
heart attack or brain strock.
• Normal person caries 150000 -
450000 platlets in 1cc blood.
• less platlets in blood is called
thrombocytopenia.
24. Lymph
• Lymph is the fluid which squeezed from the blood capillaries and
become the interstitial fluid. This interstitial fluid collected in the
lymphatic vessels and again go to the larger vein to main circulation.
• Its composition is about about same as the plasma in the blood but it
cantain the waistmaterial released by the cells.
• Lymph cantains certain cell mainly in the lymph nodes like T-
lymphocytes and B-lymphocytes and many others.
• Its main fuction is to drain the fluid coming from the blood back to
the blood vessels.
25. Lymph production
• Lymph helps in the immune
system of the body.
• It also helps in the absorption of
the fats in the intestine via small
vessels called Lacteals.