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What are ingredients of blood serum?
Blood Serum is the liquid portion of a blood clot.
How do you obtain blood serum?
Serum is obtained from a SSt tube, which is allowed to clot and is then centrifuged
What do clot activators do?
They help the blood sample in the tube clot so that serum can be separated for analysis. Serum is the preferred specimen for many tests such as hormones, proteins and electrolytes.
Use serum in a sentence?
Serum is the fluid part that remains after the blood is allowed to clot in atest tube.
What is a form of gel-like barrier between serum and the clot in a coagulated blood sample?
serum separators
Serum is the _____.?
Serum is the liquid portion of blood AFTER it has clot. Compared to plasma, which is the liquid portion of blood before it clots. The difference is the absence of fibrinogen in serum.
What is that stuff in the bottom of a vial when blood work is drawn?
You are probably seeing the serum separator gel. After the blood in the tube clots, they spin it to separate the clot from the remaining fluid (serum). The gel will move in between the clot and the serum so they stay separated.
What is the clear yellow liquid that is seen after a clot is formed is called?
serum
What are gold top tubes used for?
these tubes are used in those tests where serum used. when blood clot, serum is obtained after the centrifugation.
If blood is allowed to clot the fluid portion of the sample is referred to?
Serum or supernatent
If Fibrin clot forms in serum layer of blood specimen?
it will lead to inaccurate results
What do activators do?
They help the blood sample in the tube clot so that serum can be separated for analysis. Serum is the preferred specimen for many tests such as hormones, proteins and electrolytes.
