Blood
Blood cells responsible for blood clotting
What are platelets?
The junction between two neurons
What is synapse?
Blood vessel bringing blood carrying digested food from small intestine to liver
What is the portal vein?
Major organ of the circulatory system
What is the heart?
Stem cells that are made from terminally differentiated cells
What are induced pluripotent stem cells (IPSCs)?
The oxygen-carrying protein on red blood cells
What is Hemoglobin?
The two main divisions of the nervous system
What are the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system?
The Greek word for liver
What is Hepar?
The two types of chambers in the heart
What are the atria and ventricles?
A process used to treat certain blood disorders and cancers where blood and immune cells are transplanted from a donor into a patient
What is hematopoietic stem cell transplantion?
Universal blood DONOR blood type
What is Type O Negative?
An area in the brain that has the ability to make speech
What is Broca’s area?
The physician who performed the first human liver transplant
Who is Dr. Thomas E. Starzl?
The largest artery of the body
What is the aorta?
The process of stem cells becoming more specific cells
What is differentiation?
Lifespan of a red blood cell
What is 120 days?
Scanning method that detects radioactive material that is injected or inhaled to produce an image of the brain.
What is PET? (Positron Emission Tomography)
Percentage of tissue needed to completely regrow liver (hint less than 50%)
What is 25%?
Veins contain these to prevent backflow.
What are valves?
Stem cells that can differentiate into multiple but not all somatic cell types
What are multipotent stem cells?
5 types of white blood cells
What are neutrophils, basophils, monocytes, lymphocytes, and eosinophils?
The neurotransmitter acetylcholine is common in elderly people which causes them to lose their memory and involves this disease
What is Alzheimer’s?
Form of sugar liver uses to store energy
What is glycogen?
The only veins that carry oxygenated blood
What are the pulmonary veins?
Transcription factors used to make induced pluripotent stem cells
What are Yamanaka factors?