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Week 3 Hypoproteinemia
1. Describe all the constituents contained in plasma and their concentrations. We have the protein albumin and fibrinogen which help maintain pressure in the serum osmotic. Plasma contains 90 percent of water, and the other 10 percent is made up with Several other component. For example, proteins, nutrient molecules, dissolved gasses, waste, and ions. The antibodies include the protein in the plasma. 2. Explain the liver's role in production of proteins. The liver can also convert toxic substances to harmless substances and push them out of our body, and it is one the largest organ in the human body. The liver cells hepatocytes produce most
of the protein found in plasma, the major plasma protein is albumin. The live roles are to convert nutrients into important substances. It keeps these substances and supply cells with them when needed.
3. Why would albumin be important in regulating pressure at the capillaries? Albumin helps our body maintain pressure by holding up the intravascular colloid osmotic, it can also neutralize toxins and transport therapeutic agents. Albumin is important because it help keeps the fluids from leaking out of the blood vessels, and albumin is also a protein made by our liver. Explain the process of fluid movement at both the arterial and venous side of the capillary.
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