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RED BLOOD CELLS EXAM STUDY GUIDE SOLUTIONS Erthropoietin - ANSWER-hormone secreted by kidneys for the formation of RBCs---- released during anermia Splenic contraction - ANSWER-significant, allows horses to have more speed, rbc stored here, circulate in spleen, caue fight or flight response, R...

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RED BLOOD CELLS EXAM STUDY GUIDE

SOLUTIONS


Erthropoietin - ANSWER✔✔-hormone secreted by kidneys for the formation of RBCs---- released during

anermia


Splenic contraction - ANSWER✔✔-significant, allows horses to have more speed, rbc stored here,

circulate in spleen, caue fight or flight response, RBC can be damaged here


RBC function - ANSWER✔✔-transports O2 from the lungs to the tissues and carbon dioxide from tissues

to lungs


hemoglobin - ANSWER✔✔-iron-containing protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen for delivery to

cells


methemoglobin - ANSWER✔✔-An altered hemoglobin which does not carry oxygen.before the liver can

convert back to hemoglobin


MCV - ANSWER✔✔-Mean corpuscular volume average volume of RBCs; useful for anemia classification


MCH - ANSWER✔✔-mean corpuscular hemoglobin



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MCHC - ANSWER✔✔-mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration


erythropoiesis - ANSWER✔✔-the process of producing red blood cells by the stem cells in the bone

marrow


Rubriblasts - ANSWER✔✔-Step 1 large solid nucleus w/ little cyto (stains guite dark), for every stem cell,

there is one of these cells, split into 2 prorubricytes


Prorubricyte - ANSWER✔✔-Step 2 : 2 cells form from the division of a rubriblast (cell size dec., nucleus

size decreases, (cytoplasam matures and becomes lighter) has to end up w/ no nucleus


Rubricyte - ANSWER✔✔-Step 3. in RBC pathway. Cell undergoes 3 mitotic divisions. Cell size decreases,

nuclear size decreases, and cytoplasm matures.


Metarubricyte - ANSWER✔✔-Step 4. and contains a very dense nucleus (nRBC)


57%-67% - ANSWER✔✔-What percent in a dz animal where there be metarubricytes?


Erythrocyte - ANSWER✔✔-a mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily

tissues


Platelets - ANSWER✔✔-thrombocytes; cell fragments in the blood essential for blood clotting

(coagulation)


Megakaryoblasts - ANSWER✔✔-build mature plateletes


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