2006-09-29 23:27:10 · 8 answers · asked by Malfoy vs Potter 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
plasma = blood - (RBC + WBC + platelets)
serum = blood - (RBC + WBC + platelets + fibrinogen + prothrombin)
serum is what is left behind after blood clots as far as i remember...
2006-09-30 03:03:09 · answer #1 · answered by questiongirl14 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-05 10:49:44 · answer #2 · answered by elzey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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What is the difference between blood plasma and blood serum?
2015-08-16 21:34:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Plasma is the liquid portion of the blood that is separated from the blood cells by centrifugation. One of the characteristics of plasma is that it clots easily which is important for hemophiliacs needing a transfusion but is a nuisance in most other applications. By agitating the plasma, one can precipitate the clotting factors as a large clot, and the leftover fluid is called serum. So, serum plus clotting factors is plasma, and clotted plasma yields serum (as an interesting aside, "serum" is Latin for whey, the liquid portion of clotted milk removed in making cheese).
2006-09-29 23:53:05 · answer #5 · answered by mallimalar_2000 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Blood plasma is the liquid component of blood, in which the blood cells are suspended. Plasma is the largest single component of blood, making up about 55% of total blood volume. Serum refers to blood plasma in which clotting factors (such as fibrin) have been removed. Blood plasma contains many vital proteins including fibrinogen, globulins and human serum albumin.
Plasma resembles whey in appearance (transparent with a faint straw colour). It is mainly composed of water, blood proteins, and inorganic electrolytes. It serves as transport medium for glucose, lipids, amino acids, hormones, metabolic end products, carbon dioxide and oxygen. (The oxygen transport capacity and oxygen content (CaO2) of plasma is much lower than that of the hemoglobin in the red blood cells; the CaO2 will, however, increase under hyperbaric conditions.) Plasma is the storage and transport medium of clotting factors. Its protein content is necessary to maintain the oncotic pressure of the blood, which "holds" the serum within the vessels.
blood plasma = blood serum
2006-09-29 23:29:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Blood is a fluid tissue the tissue part are the different cells and the fluid part constitute the serum.
2006-09-30 11:55:21 · answer #7 · answered by moosa 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Question girl had it right except plasma contains clotting factors, not serum. Clotting factors, fibrinogen.
2014-02-26 02:39:20 · answer #8 · answered by Jane 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
simply if you add anticoagulant to the blood and centrifuge resultant supernatant = Plasma
if you leave blood for 30 min and centrifuge resultant supernatant = Seurm
2014-08-05 22:12:03 · answer #9 · answered by sajeeth 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋