Hello everyone!
This is, probably, a common question but I would like to know what do you think about which BD Vaccutainer tube to use: yellow top (with serum separator gel) or red top (with clotting agent and no gel) if I want to obtain serum from a whole blood sample which will be used in immunochemical tests (such as serum interleucin detection).
This comes as I recently read a publication (Standard Operating Procedures for Serum and Plasma Collection: Early Detection Research Network Consensus Statement Standard Operating Procedure Integration Working Group) in which it is specified that serum samples shall be collected from red-top tubes instead of the SST ones.
Shall it be of help, I herein attach the links to the publication and supp. information.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2655764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2655764/bin/NIHMS94453-supplement-1.pdf
Best regards,
Andrés.
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