Zusammenfassung der Ressource
PE - Blood
- The body's means of transporting substances around
- Oxygen
- Carbon Dioxide
- Hormones
- Nutrients
- Minerals
- Waste products
- Red Blood Cells
- AKA erythrocytes
- disc shaped
- Made in bone marrow
- Contain haemoglobin
- Transports oxygen to tissues
- Vital for muscle contraction
- More red blood cells means
more oxygen carried => more
energy => more muscle
contractions
- Training and living at Altitude
- White Blood Cells
- aka leucocytes
- Bigger than RBC's with a large nucleus
- Act as the body's
defence system
- Some surround and consume
harmful microbes, Some produce
antibodies to fight infection
- Platelets
- Formed in the red
bone marrow
- Produce thrombokinase which is needed for clotting
- Help repair tissues and close wounds
- When needed they grow into irregular shapes
and stick together forming a plug over the
wound
- Plasma
- The liquid part of the blood in which everything else floats
- 90% water
- inorganic salts, glucose, urea and
other waste products,plasma
proteins etc
- Blood Doping
- illegally boosting your RBC count
- improves performance by 20%
- Can lead to dangerous
blood clots and all heart problems associated with high blood pressure
- Blood is removed from a performer several months before the competition
Anmerkungen:
- So their body produces more
- The RBC's are separated from the blood and stored
- Just before the comp they are re-injected giving an artificially high RBC count