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4 Plasma is, on the whole, pretty similar to this kind of fluid for obvious reasons | 1 60% of blood protein concentration, contributing to osmotic pressure |
9 Take up ion, hormones etc. to prevent their being filtered out by the kidneys | 2 Unsurprisingly used to make fibrin, a blood clotting factor |
10 Also called antibodies | 3 Another blood clot factor |
5 Plasma minus its clotting factors | |
6 An albumin or a globulin plus a fatty acid, triglyceride or cholesterol | |
7 35% of blood protein concentration, including immunoglobulins and transport proteins | |
8 Primary source of plasma proteins, accounting for 90% of production |