1. The circulatory system III Blood vessels Arteries Capillaries Veins
Chapter 21
The circulatory system III
Blood vessels
Arteries
Capillaries
Veins

2. Blood vessels
Defined: hollow tubes of smooth muscle, elastic and dense connective tissue.
Serve as conduits through which blood is circulated to every cell in the body.
Tunica interna (intima) – -inner most layer of vessel wall. Lined with endothelial cells overlying a sparse layer of loose CT.
Tunica media – -middle layer and thickest in arteries. Contains smooth muscle, collagen and in larger vessels ( e.g.-aorta) elastin fibers.
Tunica externa (adventitia) -outer most layer covering vessels, consisting of loose CT. It merges with neighboring blood vessels, nerves and/or other organs. It contains the vasa vasorum which supply blood to outer ½ of vessel wall in larger vessels.
Lumen: central canal or opening in the center of the vessel.

3. Neurovascular bundle

5. Conducting (elastic) arteries

6. Muscular arteries

7. Classes of Blood Vessels
Arteries –-are the resistance vessels of the CV system. Designed to withstand large fluctuations in blood pressure.
Conducting (elastic or large) arteries: 1.0–2.5 cm diam.
Biggest arteries; Aorta, carotids, pulmonary trunk, common iliacs and subclavians are all examples.
Contain a thin elastic layer between intima → media and the media → externa.
Have up to 70 layers of elastic tissue.
Distributing (muscular) arteries: 0.3 mm to1 cm diam.
smaller branches that distribute blood to specific organs - have up to 40 layers of elastic tissue

8. Resistance (small arteries) and arterioles
Small arteries are too variable in number and location to be given specific individual names μ diam.
Contain up to 25 layers of smooth muscle and little elastic tissue.
Arterioles are the smallest of arteries and have only 3 layers of smooth muscle and little tunica externa.
Metarterioles – terminal aretrioles before capillary bed; merge into through fare channels from which true capillaries branch off.
Precapillary sphincters are at merge point and regulate blood flow based on tissue needs

9. Tissue blood flow: Terminal arterioles → metarterioles which →
through fare channels.
Precap. Sphincters-
Regulate flow direction
into true capillaries or
through channels.

10. Capillaries
For blood to serve any purpose, materials (eg. O2, CO2, nutrients, wastes and hormones) must pass through the walls of blood vessels.
There are only 2 sites in the vascular system for this to occur: Capillaries and Venules.
Capillaries are composed of only an endothelium and a thin basement membrane.
They average ~ 5 μ to 9μ in size.
Capillaries far out number venules in the cardiovascular system.

12. Capillaries Molecules pass into/out of capillary walls by 4 routes:
1. Direct diffusion through the endothelial cell membrane
- down the concentration gradient O2 and CO2
2. Through intercellular clefts
- small molecules
3. Pinocytotic vesicles and caveolae (in pocketing of vessel wall)
- large molecules and proteins
4. Through fenestrations (pores) in the capillary wall
CO2 and O2 easily diffuse through the endothelial cells

13. Capillaries
a) Continuous b) Fenestrated c) Sinusoidal

15. Venules
Venules and veins contain valves to maintain a one way flow of blood back to the heart.
Venules are the smallest of veins (~15-20 μm).
Possess a tunica interna with a few fibroblasts wrapped around them and tend to be more porous than capillaries.
Most leukocytes migrate from blood stream through postcapillary venules.

16. Venous valves
-muscles pump blood
by contracting and
compressing veins.

17. Veins Are sometimes called capacitance vessels
At rest veins contain 54% of the blood volume
Medium veins range up to 10 mm in diameter (ex. ulnar, great saphenous, radial).
Medium veins have a tunica interna, an endothelium, a basement membrane and loose CT with a thin interna elastic lamina

18. Large veins Diameters greater than 10 mm.
Contain longitudinal bundles of smooth muscle and a thick tunica externa.
Ex: vena cava, pulmonary veins, internal jugular and renal veins

20. Pulmonary Circulation
Blood flows through the lungs to get rid of CO2 and pick up O2.
Begins in right ventricle → pulmonary trunk → pulmonary arteries → lobar arteries → arterioles → lung capillary beds → venules → pulmonary veins → left atrium

21. Pulmonary Circulation
Pulmonary trunk → pulmonary arteries → lobar arteries

22. Systemic Circulation
Blood flow to the entire body except for the pulmonary circuit
Begins in left atrium → left ventricle → aorta → every cell in the entire body → arteries → arterioles → capillary beds → venules → veins → vena cava → right atrium → pulmonary circulation

23. Major arteries off of aortic arch

24. Major arteries off of aorta

25. Specialized circulations
Bronchial circulation goes to lung tissues proper to provide nutritive blood to the lungs since the pulmonary circuit does not provide blood to the lung tissues
Circle of Willis provides blood flow to the brain. It arrives there via two separate pathways.
Hepatic Portal circulation provides blood flow to the liver via a portal pathway.
A portal circulation passes through two capillary beds in series whereas most circulations pass through a single capillary bed.

26. Blood flow to the head and brain

27. Circle of Willis
Provides blood flow to the brain by either the internal carotid artery or the basilar artery.
The internal carotid enters the cranial cavity through the carotid foramen.
The basilar artery is formed by the convergence of the two vertebral arteries that come up through the transverse foramen of the cervical vertebra.

28. Circle of Willis

29. Hepatic Portal Circulation
The hepatic portal circulation is unique in that blood passes from the intestines into a primary capillary bed outside of the liver and then into the hepatic portal vein into a second capillary bed in the liver before it passes out of the liver via the hepatic vein into the inferior vena cava.

30. Hepatic Portal Circulation

33. Hepatic portal veins

34. Fetal Circulation
The fetal circulation provides blood to the fetus from the mother via the umbilical vessels.
Keep in mind that the fetal lungs are nonfunctional until after the child is born.
Fetal circulation is provided by an interatrial shunt the foramen ovale and a pulmonary → aorta shunt the ductus arteriosis.
Blood from the placenta comes to the fetus via the umbilical vein → right atrium → foramen ovale → LA → LV → body or → RV → pulmonary trunk → ductus arteriosis → aorta.
Theses become the fossa ovale and ligamentum arterosis after birth of the child.

35. Umbilical vein →RA →
LA →LV → aorta →
body →umbilical artery →
placenta.
RV →Pulmonary trunk →
ductus areteriosis →
aorta → body →
umbilical artery →

36. Arteries to know Aorta: ascending, aortic arch, thoracic and abdominal
Coronary arteries: left ant. descending and circumflex
Brachiocephalic
Left and right Common Carotid
Internal and external Carotid arteries
Left and right Subclavian
Axillary, Brachial, Radial, Ulnar
Vertebral, Intercostal, Celiac trunk, Superior and Inferior mesenteric, Common iliac, External iliac, Suprarenal, Renal, Gonadal, Femoral, Popliteal, Ant. and Post. Tibial, Fibular

37. Major arteries
Aorta
Brachiocephalic
Rt/Lt common
carotids
Int/ext carotids
Left subclavian

38. Arteries of the upper limb
Axillary
Brachial
Ulnar
Radial

39. Abdominal blood flow - mesenteric arteries

40. Arteries in the abdominal cavity
Suprarenal
Renal
Lumbar
Common iliacs

41. Arteries to lower limb
Femoral
Popliteal
Ant/post
tibial

42. Veins to know Superior and inferior vena cava
Brachiocephalic, Subclavian, Cephalic
Internal and external jugular
Axillary, Brachial, Basilic, Median cubital
Hepatic, Suprarenal, Renal, Gonadal, Lumbar, Common iliac, External iliac, Internal iliac, Femoral
Great saphenous, Popliteal, Ant and Post Tibial, Peroneal
Superior sagittal and Transverse sinuses, Cavernous sinus

43. Major veins
Superior vena cava
Inferior vena cava
Ext jugular vein
Int jugular vein

44. Venous return from the head

46. Venous return from the upper limb
Axillary
Med. cubital
Brachial
Basilic

47. Venous return from abdomen
Hepatic
Suprerenal
Renal
Int/Ext iliac
Gonadal
Lumbar

48. Hepatic portal circulation

49. Venous return from the lower limb
Femoral vein
Gt saphenous
Popliteal
Ant/post
tibial