{"id":32184,"date":"2018-04-06T15:01:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T15:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=32184"},"modified":"2018-04-06T15:03:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T15:03:52","slug":"biology-nursing-what-is-blood-serum-vs-blood-plasma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-nursing-what-is-blood-serum-vs-blood-plasma\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology, nursing: what is blood serum, vs blood plasma?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring biology, you might be asked about blood serum and\/or blood plasma. The tutor mentions a distinction.<\/h1>\n<p>In <a href=\"?p=32153\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a> I give an explanation of blood plasma: it&#8217;s blood minus the red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Some people might see it as the liquid that carries the blood cells and platelets.<\/p>\n<p>Blood serum is related, but has a specific difference from plasma:<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:khaki;background-color:firebrick;padding:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:monospace;font-size:130%\">\n<span style=\"font-size:130%\">blood serum:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>plasma after fibrinogen has been removed from it.<\/p>\n<p>Fibrinogen is a protein that weaves the physical blood clot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mader, Sylvia S. <i>Inquiry into Life<\/i>, 9th ed. Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 2000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/cssref\/css_colors.asp\">www.w3schools.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring biology, you might be asked about blood serum and\/or blood plasma. The tutor mentions a distinction. In yesterday&#8217;s post I give an explanation of blood plasma: it&#8217;s blood minus the red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Some &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-nursing-what-is-blood-serum-vs-blood-plasma\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biology, nursing: what is blood serum, vs blood plasma?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,1],"tags":[2836,2835],"class_list":["post-32184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-uncategorized","tag-blood-serum-definition","tag-difference-between-blood-plasma-and-blood-serum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32184"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32213,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32184\/revisions\/32213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}