Human plasma/serum products

Blood is comprised of several factors, mainly plasma, serum, white blood cells and red blood cells.

Human plasma and serum are similar but the greatest difference is the clotting factors. Fibrinogen is a substance that is essential for blood clotting to take place. When human serum and plasma are separated from the blood, plasma retains the fibrinogen element while human serum constitutes the part of blood without fibrinogen.

Many cell cultures involving the use of human cell lines as well as diagnostic applications such as immunohistochemical staining, antigen typing etc will not function efficiently in the presence of commonly used animal serum media such as fetal bovine serum. Many of these applications require the addition of human serum to the culture medium.

Biowest is the ideal partner for both researchers and biopharmaceutical companies. In addition to animal serum, we have off the clot human serum processed from naturally coagulated human blood.  Serum collected from volunteer donors and screened for Hep B(HBS),Hep C (HCV) and HIV type 1 and 2. All products are produced in ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 13485:2012 facilities.

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· Collected and imported in accordance to EU regulations

· Sterile filtered; mycoplasma and virus tested

· Processed from Human blood that was collected on citrate

·  Tested negative against Hep B, Hep C, HIV1 and 2 and Syphilis

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