This document discusses the preparation and separation of serum and plasma from blood. It explains that serum is obtained from clotted blood and is plasma without clotting factors, while plasma is the liquid portion of unclotted blood containing proteins and dissolved substances. The key steps for obtaining serum and plasma involve collecting blood in tubes, allowing clotting for serum, centrifuging to separate components, and collecting the supernatant fluid, being careful to avoid hemolysis or lipemia which can interfere with tests.
This document discusses the preparation and separation of serum and plasma from blood. It explains that serum is obtained from clotted blood and is plasma without clotting factors, while plasma is the liquid portion of unclotted blood containing proteins and dissolved substances. The key steps for obtaining serum and plasma involve collecting blood in tubes, allowing clotting for serum, centrifuging to separate components, and collecting the supernatant fluid, being careful to avoid hemolysis or lipemia which can interfere with tests.
This document discusses the preparation and separation of serum and plasma from blood. It explains that serum is obtained from clotted blood and is plasma without clotting factors, while plasma is the liquid portion of unclotted blood containing proteins and dissolved substances. The key steps for obtaining serum and plasma involve collecting blood in tubes, allowing clotting for serum, centrifuging to separate components, and collecting the supernatant fluid, being careful to avoid hemolysis or lipemia which can interfere with tests.
ACTIVITY XI: SERUM AND PLASMA Transports nutrients, waste products,
PREPARTION hormones, protein, ions, Oxygen,
CO2 and formed elements May mga analytes na nagrerequire ng Regulates body temperature serum or plasma lang Assists in the regulation of osmotic and acid-base balance (pH) Clinical Chem – Serum ang ginagamit na o Normal pH range: 7.35-7.45 analytes (Glucose, TG, Total Cholesterol) Protection (Immune Defense) Hemoglobin A1C – diabetes (Level of sugar Prevents excessive blood loss (Clot for past 3 months) Formation) Platelets
Clotted Blood – Serum (Red Tube, Yellow
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DIFFERENT TYPES OF CENTRIFUGE
Clinical Microcentrifuged Refrigerated - for RNA extraction
BLOOD
red fluid that circulates inside blood
vessels Life Span of RBC: 120 Days
After 120 days engulf siya ni spleen
Buffy Coat – Platelets and WBCs, dito Consists of formed elements kukunin DNA (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and platelets) and a fluid component Pag yellow top called plasma - Serum Volume of blood in an average - Thixotropic gel human adult is 5 L. (VARIES) - Buffy coat o Mas mataas sa male kesa - RBCs female Circulates in a closed system of Pag may Hepa (PLASMA) – Yellow vessels Pag hemolyzed (PLASMA) – reddish pinkish Have short life spans and are PLASMA continuously replaced by hemopoiesis 91% Water is a clear, straw-colored liquid *Erythropoiesis – making rbc portion of the blood in which the FUNCTION OF BLOOD other cells are suspended. transporting medium for cells and a In blood, the serum is the variety of substances vital to the component that is neither a blood human body. cell nor a clotting factor; it is the contains proteins for blood clotting blood plasma with the fibrinogens and defending the body against removed i.e. infection. Serum = Plasma – Clotting Factors Plasma = water + proteins + dissolved *Serum doesn’t contain white or red blood substances cells PREPARATION/SEPERATION OF PLASMA How to know if it’s fully clotted? – Baliktaran 1. The blood is mixed with an mo parang DQ appropriate amount of PREPARATION/SEPARTION OF SERUM anticoagulant 2. This preparation should be mixed The blood is collected using a plain immediately and thoroughly to tube without anticoagulant avoid clotting. Allow the blood to clot by leaving it 3. It is then centrifuged for 15 minutes undisturbed at room temperature at 2000 -2500 rpm. (xG times gravity) which usually takes 15–30 minutes 4. The supernatant fluid is then but not longer than 1 hour before separated and then labeled properly centrifugation. It is then centrifuged for 15 minutes Plasma Proteins (COMPOSITION) at 2000 -2500 rpm. 60% Albumin The supernatant fluid is then 35% Globulin separated and then labeled 4% Fibrinogen properly 1% Other (Blood Protein Content)* In laboratory plasma and serum can be *Regulatory Proteins, Lipoproteins, Iron- separated and measured in order to help Binding Proteins with the diagnosis and monitoring of diseases. SERUM
undiluted, extracellular portion of
blood after adequate coagulation is complete. The clear liquid that can be separated from clotted blood is about 90% water with dissolved proteins, minerals, hormones and carbon dioxide and is an important source of electrolytes Obtained normally after a meal due to elevated chylomicrons Characterized by milky or highly turbid serum Lactescence appears when the TAG (Triglyceride) level reaches 4.6 mM (4g/L)
SPECIMEN INTERFERENCE
Icteresia (Icteric serum)
Intensely yellow serum sample due
to elevated bilirubin value Jaundice in a patient is caused by a bilirubin level of greater than 430 µM (25 mg/L) Bilirubin interferes with tests using dyes and turbidity tests
Lysis of cells or Laking (Hemolyzed serum)
Results in leakage of intracellular
substances In vitro hemolysis is more common which may be due to: 1. Use of vacuum tubes (magsearch ng blood?) 2. Vigorous mixing 3. Effect of alcohol 4. Centrifugation and separation steps