A decrease in blood protein concentration would tend to do what? Let’s see the main points that should be accounted for the paper.
Increase Damage to the Brain
A decrease in blood protein concentration would tend to lead to increased damage to the brain. Why? It is a simple matter of osmosis. The general rule is that a dilute solution tends to flow from an area of greater solute concentration to an area of lesser solute concentration.
When you have a dilute solution, like water, and you have some solutes dissolved in it, like salt, then you have an osmotic gradient between your cells and the water outside them. When this gradient exists, water will leave the cells until there is no longer any osmotic gradient.
If you have less proteins in your blood (less osmotic pressure) then the cells of your body are going to lose water because they are not being pushed out by proteins. Since there isn’t as much water inside the cells, they will swell until they burst. This process is called necrosis and can cause serious damage to your brain.
Decrease Damage to The Brain
- To answer this question correctly, you need to understand that there is a balance between certain ions, such as sodium and potassium, inside and outside of cells. This balance is called homeostasis.
- If the concentration of something that helps to maintain that balance gets too high or too low, it can cause problems for the cell. In short, if the protein concentration drops too much, then there will be a problem with the balance of ions in the extracellular fluid (the fluid around the cell) and that will cause damage to the brain cells.
- So why would a decrease in blood protein concentration cause damage to the brain? It’s because of osmosis. Osmosis is a physical process where water will move across a membrane from an area where it has less solute (which is just a fancy word for dissolved substances) to an area where it has more solute.
- This happens because water wants to be more evenly distributed in order that all areas have a similar concentration of solutes overall. So if there were fewer proteins in your blood than normal, then water would move out of your arteries and into your brain tissue until the levels were balanced again
Increase Hematocrit Value
- Protein is the major constituent of plasma, accounting for about 55% of its volume. During a decrease in protein concentration, the remaining proteins are more tightly packed, leading to an increased hematocrit value.
- In addition, decreased plasma protein concentration can also lead to a reduction in oncotic pressure (via albumin) and an increase in colloid osmotic pressure (via globulins). This can have numerous consequences, such as a decrease in whole blood viscosity and an increase in red blood cell deformability.
- In short: Decreased plasma protein concentration leads to decreased oncotic pressure and increased colloid osmotic pressure, resulting in increased hematocrit values.
Decrease Hematocrit Value
Decreases the number of circulating red blood cells
In a situation where there is an increase in blood loss or an excess of fluid loss, protein-rich fluid is lost along with the blood. A decrease in blood protein concentration would tend to do what?
A decrease in blood protein concentration would tend to do what? Decrease the number of circulating red blood cells.
Decreased hematocrit levels are sometimes associated with dehydration and can be due to a variety of causes including
- Excessive sweating,
- Diarrhoea,
- Vomiting,
- Exercise induced loss of sodium and water.
In this case, a decrease in plasma volume (due to increased water losses) combined with a continued high production of red cells from bone marrow (due to increased red cell demands) leads to a decreased plasma volume.
This decreases plasma oncotic pressure (the pressure exerted by proteins), which draws more interstitial fluid through capillaries into the intravascular space. As more liquid enters the blood vessels, it dilutes the red cells and increases plasma volume even further.
The decreased plasma volume decreases the amount of fluid that can be removed by increased capillary filtration pressure. This leads to increased interstitial fluid concentrations (edema formation).
Last Words
A decrease in blood protein concentration would tend to do what? An increase. And why? Because not all of the cells are ruptured and the body is still trying to compensate for the drop in blood sugar by releasing sugar stored in the liver (sugar is stored in liver cells as glycogen).