Anatomy & Physiology › Section P · Blood › Topic P.1
Blood and the formed elements
Blood is the only connective tissue that flows. It carries oxygen, nutrients, hormones and wastes, defends the body and helps hold temperature and pH steady, and the cells it carries must be replaced constantly by the red bone marrow.
In this topic
- A fluid connective tissue
- Physical characteristics
- Spinning a sample: the hematocrit
- Worked example: reading a hematocrit tube
- What plasma contains
- The plasma proteins
- Worked example: when albumin falls
- Where blood cells are made
- From stem cell to formed element
- Hemopoietic growth factors
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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