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Which color tube do you use for serum creatinine?
For serum creatinine, the recommended tube to use is a red-top tube without any anticoagulant. This allows for the blood to clot and the serum to be separated.
What is whey?
Whey: the serum or watery part of milk that is separated from the curd in making cheese.
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.
What is serum made of?
truth serum is a drug called sodium Anatol
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.
What is plasma that lacks a clotting factor?
Serum, it lacks all of the elements needed for clotting. They have been separated out.
Does a red top tube have serum or plasma in it?
A red top tube typically contains serum after the blood has been separated by centrifugation. Plasma is obtained from blood collected in tubes with anticoagulants.
What color tube do you collect for Titers?
For titers, blood can be collected in a red-top tube (serum separator tube) or a gold-top tube (serum separator tube with gel). The serum is then separated from the blood cells by centrifugation and used for the titer test.
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.
Plasma minus clotting proteins?
Plasma minus clotting proteins is called serum. Serum is the liquid portion of blood that remains after blood has clotted and the clotting factors have been removed. Serum is used in various medical tests to measure different components in the blood.
What is Vaccine Liquid called?
Serum
What is serum insulin?
It means the amount of insulin found in the watery part of the blood called serum.
