These are not particularly similar substances. A serum is a fluid that is used as a medical remedy or antidote, or can also mean the liquid portion of the blood (without the blood cells); semen is seminal fluid, which contains sperm cells and is a substance that a male uses to impregnate a female
sera is the plural of serum!
New born calf serum is cheaper than FBS
Fibrinogen is found in plasma but not in serum. Plasma has this clotting protein, but when blood clots, fibrinogen is used up, leaving serum without it. That’s the main difference between the two!
An anion gap is a difference between the levels of cations and anions in serum, plasma or urine.
seroma is a tumor-like collection of serum, whereas ceroma is a tumor of degenerated tissue.
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.
Plasma has clotting factors in it and serum does not.
The count is made if you have enough sperm to fertalise a women, sperm comes out with the semen.
there is no difference between the semen of the two. However chronic alcoholics, smokers and people with vitamin deficiency are more prone to infertility.
Anti-A serum is used to detect the presence of A antigens on red blood cells, while anti-B serum is used to detect the presence of B antigens. This helps determine a person's blood type in blood typing tests.
Serum is in the blood vessels (circulating blood). Lymph is the plasma that diffuses through the arteries (used to be part of the blood) into the lymph system. Once it flows through the lymph system, it will rejoin with blood through veins.
serum separators