owl liver - How it works
Blood sampling protocol
The owl liver NAFLD Diagnosis Test needs just a serum sample together with a set of patient clinical parameters (age, sex, BMI,…). The following blood sample extraction procedure should be followed:
- Fasting blood collection in Vacutainer SST II advance tubes or similar, without anticoagulant and with separation gel.
- Vacutainer System Blood Collection needles or similar.
- Centrifuge following the extraction tube manufacturer´s instructions.
- Remove serum, place it in an Eppendorf tube and freeze immediately at -80ºC.
- Samples should be sent for analysis on dry ice (-80ºC). OWL Genomics is in charge of transport.
Processing and analysis time will vary depending on the necessary procedures in each case.
Owl liver diagnostic system
- Clinician prescribes owl liver Diagnostic test using the patient’s blood sample.
- Metabolites are extracted from the serum sample.
- An analytical profile of the extracted metabolites is generated.
- Prime interest metabolites for the disease are identified. The relative levels of key metabolites are checked against a NASH/Steatosis database.
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