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What structures in capillary beds open to allow the capillaries to perfuse with blood?
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precapillary sphincters
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What reaction does histamine have on the capillaries?
They allow capillary walls to open and become leaky.
How do glucose molecules move from the capillary into the cells?
GLUT transporters allow glucose to move down its concentration gradient in the capillaries to the cells where it is needed.
How is the anatomy of capillaries and capillary beds well suited for their function?
The capillaries have the thinnest walls of any of the blood vessels. The capillary wall is made up of a single layer of endothelium lying on a delicate basement membrane. The thin capillary wall enables water and dissolved substances, including oxygen, to diffuse from the blood into the tissue spaces, where they become available for use by the cells. The capillary also allows waste from the metabolizing cell to diffuse from the tissue spaces into the capillaries for transport by the blood to the organs of excretion. The capillaries are called exchange vessels because they allow for an exchange of nutrients and waste.
What does peritubular capillaries do?
This capillary network surrounds the tubules and plays an important role in secretion and reabsorption, plus it delivers oxygen to kidney cells.
What does the thinnest of the capillary walls allow?
only metabolic wastes out of the capillary
What are capillaries for?
The capillaries are where the gas and nutrient exchanges occur. Because in a closed circulation system the blood can't go outside the vessels, it must go to the capillary beds where it is about 1 cell thick to have diffusion. Alveoli in lungs are covered by capillaries to allow gas exchange to happen. The capillaries are most abundant of all the blood vessels, because most part of your body requires oxygen, and capillaries are where it can be given to cells.
Which blood vessels let the fresh suplies leave the blood and go into the body cells?
Most "fresh supplies" are transferred into the rest of the body through the capillaries. Capillaries are grouped together in what are called Capillary Beds, where the high blood pressure of the arteries is slowed down (capillaries are very thin) to allow for optimum diffusion and transfer.
What structures control blood flow into capillary beds?
Elastic arteries are closest to the heart and expand and contract to control blood pumping from the heart and to maintain blood pressure. Next is muscular arteries that are mostly muscle that control flow to organs and tissues. Arterioles are nextand change size based on sypathetic or endocrine system (ex: fight or flight) and allow more or less blood to reach the capillaries and be exchanged. The blood then flows into the capillaries.
How are oxygen and nutrients passed to cells?
Capillaries allow Glucose and oxygen to move out of the blood in the capillaries into interstitial fluid and into the cells. Fluid is exchanged between capillary blood and interstitial fluid.
Where in the respiratory system does gas exhcange occur?
Gas exchange occurs in the alveoli in the respiratory system. The thin-walled structures allow diffusion of gases into and out of the capillaries.
What blood vessel allow diffusion?
The capillaries allow diffusion of nutrients, waste, and oxygen through their walls, which are one cell thick. This diffusion allows transportation of nutrients and waste materials throughout the body.
What are the characteristics of a capillary?
They are only one cell thick and have very thin walls, to allow nutrients and oxygen to diffuse out of them.
