Why did some portion of plasma move to ficoll after gradient centrifugation?

31 May 2022 0 4K Report

After centrifuge in pbmc isolation, it was observed that some portion of plasma moved to ficoll. The ficoll was yellow colored. I am not understanding why did this happen.

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