Lymph, T's and B's
These humoral cells are created to remember invaders for next time.
What are Memory B Cells?
Frank-Starling's law focuses on this characteristic of the ventricles.
What is stretch?
These are receptors located in the body to measure blood pressure.
What are baroreceptors?
This drug's therapeutic level is assessed through a lab test known as Prothrombin Time.
What is Coumadin or Warfarin?
These are sticky cells that plug holes that may occur in a capillary.
What are platelets?
This is the number of replicants or clones a T cell makes when activated.
What is four?
This effect is not about stretch, but about access to Ca at the neuromuscular junction related to increase in strength of contraction.
What is the inotropic effect?
The body experiences the highest pressure in these vessels.
What are the arteries?
Therapeutic PTT is what we hope to find when a patient is on this drug therapy.
What is heparin?
What is fibrin?
T cells that let everyone know the job is finished and we can go home now.
What are Suppressor T Cells?
At some point, ventricular heart muscle that is forced to work against increased systemic vascular resistance will experience this.
What is hypertrophy.
Gas Exchange occurs here.
What are the capillaries?
A drug that alters the heart muscle's access to calcium in order to produce a more powerful force with each beat is known as this. An example is a calcium channel blocker.
What is an inotrope?
The process by which the body breaks down a blood clot after it has done its job.
What is Fibrinolysis.
B cells create these in order to give us lifelong immunity once we have successfully fought off an invader.
What are antibodies?
The formula for cardiac output.
What is stroke volume times beats per minute.
When necessary, these vessels can expand in order to act as a capacitance vessels.
What are veins and venules?
A drug that would lower the pressure in the vessels outside the heart would be decreasing this component of blood pressure.
What is SVR/Systemic Vascular Resistence?
Someone suffering from lack of platelets would have the condition known as this.
What is thrombocytopenia?
This organ is engaged with the lymphatic system, acting as a filter and a place for lymphocyte production.
What is the spleen?
The percentage of blood ejected from the heart with each beat versus what is left behind in the ventricle is known as this.
What is Ejection Fraction?
These vessels can stretch in diameter in order to act as a buffer if blood pressure becomes too high, or shrink to increase blood pressure if it becomes too low.
What are arterioles?
In an emergency situation where a blood vessel is occluded, these drugs can be administered to "bust" the clot.
What are fibrinolytics?
This is the medical term for stopping bleeding.
What is hemostasis?