blood plasma

Also known as plasma

liquid component of blood

AI overview

Blood plasma is the yellowish liquid part of your blood that carries water, nutrients, proteins, and other substances throughout your body. It matters because it keeps your blood cells suspended and circulating, and delivers essential materials to your organs and tissues while removing waste products.

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Within Vinony's link graph, blood plasma is referenced by 1,417 other articles, and connects out to Fluid compartments, blood coagulation and blood transfusion.

It is catalogued under topics including Blood, Blood products and Body fluids.

Its subject is documented across 85 Wikipedia language editions.

Research

1,145,079 papers

Albumin Is an Integrative Protein of Blood Plasma and Beyond.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Belinskaia DA, Jenkins RO, Goncharov NVDOI: 10.3390/ijms252312627
A self-pressure-driven blood plasma-separation device for point-of-care diagnostics.Talanta · 2022Kim H, Park H, Chung DR et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2022.123562
The past, present and future of blood plasma fractionation.ReviewBiologicals : journal of the International Association of Biological Standardization · 2025Curling J, Farrugia A, von Bonsdorff LDOI: 10.1016/j.biologicals.2025.101849
Thermodynamic Signatures of Blood Plasma Proteome in Neurodegenerative Pathologies.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Danailova A, Todinova S, Gartcheva L et al.DOI: 10.3390/ijms24010789
Smartphone-Enabled Quantification of Potassium in Blood Plasma.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Hidayat AS, Horino H, Rzeznicka IIDOI: 10.3390/s21144751
Micro-scale blood plasma separation: from acoustophoresis to egg-beaters.Lab on a chip · 2013Kersaudy-Kerhoas M, Sollier EDOI: 10.1039/c3lc50432h
Enhanced Blood Plasma Extraction Utilising Viscoelastic Effects in a Serpentine Microchannel.Biosensors · 2022Dai Y, Cha H, Simmonds MJ et al.DOI: 10.3390/bios12020120
Carotenoid extraction and analysis from blood plasma/serum.Methods in enzymology · 2022Sholola MJ, Cooperstone JLDOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2022.03.021

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Commons category: Blood plasma
NCI Thesaurus ID: C13356
exact match: purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_02000027

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Encyclopedic overview

A unit of donated fresh plasma

Blood plasma is a light amber-colored liquid component of blood in which blood cells are absent, but which contains proteins and other constituents of whole blood in suspension. It makes up about 55% of the body's total blood volume. It is the intravascular part of extracellular fluid (all body fluid outside cells). It is mostly water (up to 95% by volume), and contains important dissolved proteins (6–8%; e.g., serum albumins, globulins, and fibrinogen), glucose, clotting factors, electrolytes (Na , Ca , Mg , HCO3, Cl , etc.), hormones, carbon dioxide (plasma being the main medium for excretory product transportation), and oxygen. It plays a vital role in an intravascular osmotic effect that keeps electrolyte concentration balanced and protects the body from infection and other blood-related disorders.

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