MRCP UK EXAMINATIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Spleen. The spleen is a blood-filtering organ that removes microbes and destroys old or damaged red blood cells. It also makes disease-fighting components of the immune system (including antibodies and lymphocytes).

Detailed explanation-2: -Your spleen’s main function is to act as a filter for your blood. It recognizes and removes old, malformed, or damaged red blood cells. When blood flows into your spleen, your spleen performs “quality control"; your red blood cells must pass through a maze of narrow passages.

Detailed explanation-3: -The spleen helps keep harmful microorganisms out of the bloodstream. It holds key components of the body’s immune system. The spleen also removes unhealthy, old, and misshapen red blood cells from circulation. Red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the body and remove carbon dioxide (a waste product).

Detailed explanation-4: -The physical organization of the spleen allows it to filter blood of pathogens and abnormal cells and facilitate low probability interactions between antigen presenting cells (APCs) and cognate lymphocytes. APCs unique to the spleen regulate the T and B cell response to these antigenic targets in the blood.