Serum is composed of plasma minus what?

1 Answer
May 11, 2017

Serum is Plasma minus Fibrinogen.

[Plasma is Blood minus Blood corpuscles.]

Explanation:

Serum is a straw coloured fluid part of blood that appears after clotting of blood.

Plasma protein fibrinogen forms fibrin network which traps cellular components of blood in a clot. Clotting of blood needs presence of other clotting factors as well: hence serum may lack many clotting factors. Fibrinogen is clotting factor I.

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