Outline of the key functions of the Spleen

Excerpts from previous naturopathy assignments HLT60512. ‘Outline the key functions of the spleen’.

Laparoscopic MD describes the key functions of the spleen as the following: Immune response, phagocytosis, haematopoiesis, and storage of red blood cells. There are two types of spleen tissue, Red pulp and White pulp; Red due to presence of sinusoids and high blood storage (in case of blood loss injury) and due to the added role of removal and recycling of damaged and dead blood cells. White Pulp has Malpighian corpuscles which work as part of the immune system producing antibodies, and neutralising antigens such as bacteria and viruses, and it produces and stores lymphocytes (White blood cells) (Laprascopic MD, 2018)

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