Taking the first few steps towards recovering from your opiate addiction is huge. No matter how you ended up with your opiate addiction, you can always take steps to get clean. However, an important first step is to understand what to expect during your first week or two of opiate withdrawal.
With anticoagulant = plasma (still has soluble fibrinogen). Without anticoagulant = serum ( fibrinogen has been converted into insoluble fibrin in clot and is spun down with cells). Source(s): Medical Scientist. liz down under Â· 9 years ago.
A centrifuge is the equipment that is used to separate blood plasma from the serum. The blood sample is put inside and it rotates super fast causing these two components of blood to separate. Then they check the anti-coagulated blood serum for different substances, like glucose or hormones.